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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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wednesday 16 December 2009 05:04, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > Hi all, > > 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. > > 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. > > Cheers, > > Rolf Nielsen hi, i'm either using epdfview (cause it's lightweight and low on deps) or emacs (which last week i discovered that it can display pdf files) depending on my mood. if you are not familiar with emacs, epdfview is a very good (GTK) client. -- Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkspTu0ACgkQBPpdVEWKA32o/wCaAsN49U94OSW/tr/9yu8Gg0oi SKUAnRIVZhoUYqBQA5nfO0+UKC1QVFfS =PXaV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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