From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NkLce-0001u6-H8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:06:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28B5EE124F for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:06:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 288FCE0FFA for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:47:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NkLKl-0001P2-5a for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:47:39 -0500 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1OHld6U027545 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:47:39 -0500 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id o1OHlcUG027542 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:47:38 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:47:38 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions? Message-ID: <20100224174738.GB25790@math.princeton.edu> References: <3ac129341002240801k43015980xa562eded7eb336f5@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3ac129341002240801k43015980xa562eded7eb336f5@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Archives-Salt: 8630d1de-00eb-4689-9fbc-46f374e66acb X-Archives-Hash: e5689baed2a8d3155b8e70c7c21e5f33 On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:01:37AM +0900, daid kahl wrote: > I've tried xpdf, epdfview, evince, kpdf, and acroread. > I want something fast for big files, prints well, and has an interface that > doesn't remind me of pure and natural X. I don't mind the little page > overview as a side-tool, but I don't strictly require it. Speedwise I don't think epdfview/evince/kpdf will be all that much different. They are all based on the poppler framework just with different frontends. Poppler is, in turn, based on the xpdf rendering parts. Acroread is, well acroread, and I try to avoid it whenever I can. > evince will take an arbitrarily long time to print documents that are long > or have big figures. That's odd. I use evince at work (though not on gentoo; work computer is a heavily customized version of scientific linux) and I don't have the printing problem. If it weren't for the Gnome dependencies that I don't want on my laptop, I'd also use evince at home. (Hum, just checked it out again now, and it looks like the dependency list is shorter than I remembered it being?) > The interface for xpdf is pretty lame (especially default printing), but > it's quick as demons chasing bats out of hell. But it works. It is my pdf viewer of choice at home. One thing I am waiting to see is epdf from the enlightenment libraries. It is still masked, and is in the enlightenment overlay. In the sunrise overlay there is a program called apvlv. I have never tried it myself, but the codebase is small and it has a UI based on the VIM UI (for better or for worse). You probably know this already, but gv doesn't work too well a lot of times. Unfortunately there aren't that many pdf viewing softwares to choose from. Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton