From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 16 23:33:52 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 14323106568D for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:33:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D188FC1D for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBGNXomc097908; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:33:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id nBGNXorZ097905; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:33:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:33:50 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Rolf Nielsen In-Reply-To: <4B284E37.3000909@lazlarlyricon.com> Message-ID: References: <4B284E37.3000909@lazlarlyricon.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:33:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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 23:33:52 -0000 On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > 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. evince is my choice for a reasonable compromise between size and features. It's similar to the older, more reasonable versions of Acrobat Reader. If you print from evince, set your LANG environment variable beforehand. There is no easy way to set paper size, evince infers it from the LANG setting. It could really use a Preferences option, but instead wants to get all settings from GConf. To make evince use Firefox3 for embedded URLs: gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command "firefox3 %s" -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA