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Date:      Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:29:55 +0100
From:      Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com>
To:        Ed Jobs <oloringr@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Native PDF viewer
Message-ID:  <4B296D73.7000400@lazlarlyricon.com>
In-Reply-To: <200912162319.41593.oloringr@gmail.com>
References:  <4B284E37.3000909@lazlarlyricon.com> <200912162319.41593.oloringr@gmail.com>

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Ed Jobs wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks Ed,

epdfview it is. Does exactly what I want. And does it in my native 
language. :)

Rolf



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