From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 17:23:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9CFA16A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:23:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.versatel.nl (smtp1.versatel.nl [62.58.50.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B8343D58 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:23:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from f.staals@zonnet.nl) Received: (qmail 3520 invoked by uid 10); 26 Apr 2005 17:23:18 -0000 Received: (vexira-qq 03496-C3227C80 invoked from network) 26 Apr 2005 19:23:18 +0200 Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.2.5]) ([62.59.173.176]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp1.versatel.nl (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for < >; 26 Apr 2005 17:23:18 -0000 Message-ID: <426E7910.4050003@zonnet.nl> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:23:28 +0200 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050302) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: edward References: <426E76BD.2000705@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <426E76BD.2000705@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.16; VAE: 6.30.0.2; VDF: 6.30.0.11; host: postbode01.zonnet.nl) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which is the best PDF utility ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:23:20 -0000 edward wrote: > Hi all, > Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to > read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as "broken" in > the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best > alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use KDE. > Thanks for your insight on this. > Edward > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > What the 'best' is I wouldn't know, I ussually use xpfd works simple and effective, has no useless functions etc but works fine. So for what I do with it I would say xpdf is good, at least good enough for me. If you want to see it just use the command 'xpdf' its default supplied with Xorg If I'm correct Frank Staals