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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:19:41 +0200
From:      Ed Jobs <oloringr@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Native PDF viewer
Message-ID:  <200912162319.41593.oloringr@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B284E37.3000909@lazlarlyricon.com>
References:  <4B284E37.3000909@lazlarlyricon.com>

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On Wednesday 16 December 2009 05:04, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
> Hi all,
>=20
> Since I don't have Linux compat layer activated, and I have no need for
> it, I'd like to ask if anyone can suggest a native PDF viewer (I'm not
> fond of the idea of installing a compat layer for just one application).
> Currently I'm using GIMP to view PDF files, but since GIMP opens them
> either as several single pictures (one per page) or one picture with
> several layers (one layer per page), it gets a little hard to browse
> through the pages, especially with big documents, e.g. my camera manual.
>=20
> I founed several apps among the ports, too many to test them all, so if
> anyone has ideas or can tell me what the pros and cons are for some of
> those apps, I'd greatly appreciate it.
>=20
> Cheers,
>=20
> Rolf Nielsen

hi, i'm either using epdfview (cause it's lightweight and low on deps) or=20
emacs (which last week i discovered that it can display pdf files) dependin=
g=20
on my mood.
if you are not familiar with emacs, epdfview is a very good (GTK) client.

=2D-=20
Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard=
 to=20
understand.

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