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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