From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 17 20:28:23 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 ECE6D1065697 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:28:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450718FC23 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:28:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBHKI9NT015575; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:18:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:18:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:18:09 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20091217201809.GA18408@thought.org> References: <4B284E37.3000909@lazlarlyricon.com> <20091217061831.7b702bd6.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091217061831.7b702bd6.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_RHS_DOB autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org 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: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:28:24 -0000 On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:18:31AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:04:23 +0100, 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). > > There are gv (which is limited in some way, "fancy" PDF files) > and xpdf. > > I can recommend "xpdf -fullscreen " especially for use > in presentations. > > In both programs, keyboard support (important for comfortably > browsing a document) is good. > > Of course, KDE and Gnome provide their own PDF viewers, but > since you don't want to use the Linux ABI just for a PDF > viewer program, you surely won't want to install KDE or > Gnome just for the same purpose. :-) > > But I have to tell you that for some very special PDF files, > especially those that use nonstandard stuff, and for those > that "process" input fields, the acroread port is still > on my system as "fallback solution". this is just my penny's worth, but since I value *simplicity*, I'm happy with xpdf. The one thing I would like to see is the integration of the festival tts suite with any/all presentations of textual material. The speech feature for acroread must be $$$$$, because it doesn't work on my single Ubuntu platform. --oh well, ain't no free lunches... . > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php