From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 16 23:29:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B97871065672 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:29:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from listreader@lazlarlyricon.com) Received: from proxy3.bredband.net (proxy3.bredband.net [195.54.101.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739448FC18 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:29:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ipb2.telenor.se (195.54.127.165) by proxy3.bredband.net (7.3.140.3) id 4AD3E1BA01B38469 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:29:57 +0100 X-SMTPAUTH-B2: X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ar5bAIP8KEtV44PPPGdsb2JhbACBS5c2gkgBAQEBN7klhCsE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,409,1257116400"; d="scan'208";a="16554713" Received: from c-cf83e355.09-42-6e6b7010.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO lazlar.kicks-ass.net) ([85.227.131.207]) by ipb2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 17 Dec 2009 00:29:56 +0100 Message-ID: <4B296D73.7000400@lazlarlyricon.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:29:55 +0100 From: Rolf Nielsen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ed Jobs References: <4B284E37.3000909@lazlarlyricon.com> <200912162319.41593.oloringr@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200912162319.41593.oloringr@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Native PDF viewer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:29:59 -0000 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