From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90995138AB2 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D294921C033; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:41:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f48.google.com (mail-bk0-f48.google.com [209.85.214.48]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B06DE05EF for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:41:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f48.google.com with SMTP id jf20so2149024bkc.21 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 04:41:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8h/HNyYzeg/APo4R6cnFs8bEA4uHeCim3eMBPEgHucA=; b=DXoBud9EmSL7/W4faiVGAJ2Qtj2yPnOhOYo3iz24mzcUgCJaMoErdPVyVia307uNcg cz8J4KA86KDrM8e5cWCqJFWl6dE4m5sWsRSh0daMgLa3TffbfwiCOHfCGw6hffmlJohQ iN7nDmHgWh4Z+ZqEdFKxMIxZ+irymOdx7AKMUqyUnpai22BEPMhcVQP1z3HSAd68Nq+/ /ldDI057EIMaSdqSN4ElYwur3OQccWSgBOkbRlFCY6v2mEuXjZXHZkBiVo2Ky+MIv0Eo AHPvbQycKES13rbOOtIWZy8JPpeBVJ2msuAgT0XewjNTo4292khDeTNn4lXpK5CREbux 5+Dw== X-Received: by 10.204.156.140 with SMTP id x12mr3139490bkw.91.1361104904688; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 04:41:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.178.21] (p4FC606FD.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.6.253]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n1sm19709904bkv.14.2013.02.17.04.41.43 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 17 Feb 2013 04:41:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5120D005.3060601@googlemail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:41:41 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130118 Thunderbird/17.0.2 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Acroread References: <20130217093609.GA7741@dethkomp> <87wqu72li2.fsf@ist.utl.pt> In-Reply-To: <87wqu72li2.fsf@ist.utl.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 25bad964-3631-4fd3-9d15-ed2533ddd25d X-Archives-Hash: b2468ff4175fb2298c658b867971f2b0 Am 17.02.2013 13:05, schrieb (Nuno Silva): > On 2013-02-17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> On Feb 17, 2013 3:04 PM, "Yohan Pereira" wrote: >> >>> On 17/02/13 at 02:44pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >>>> That's what I did. But I tend to switch browsers too often (chromium and >>>> Firefox). >>>> Firefox has a pdf.js addon, doesn't work reliably many times. >>> If you use KDE try this. You can then use okular(among other things) >>> in your browsers. >>> >>> www-plugins/kpartsplugin >>> http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kpartsplugin/ >>> Description: Plugin using KDE's KParts technology to embed file >>> viewers into non-KDE browsers >> That sounds interesting. Will try it out. Thanks. >> >> But nobody replied if Adobe still supports acroread? > AFAIK there was no annoucement regarding end of life for acroread, so I > don't see any reason to expect otherwise. > > Flash is a separate thing. > > But keep in mind that Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the worst, most > bloated and most heavy PDF viewers out there. The only thing it may be > worthy for is some kind of bleeding edge PDF feature libpoppler and the > like don't have yet. > > Also, I actually had to try running it recently. I was trying to print a > document with annotations -- spoiler: it didn't work, not even with > acroread, closest I got was generating a postscript file using acroread > in the commandline after manually hacking the acroread settings to > enable annotation printing, and even then part of the annotations don't > show up or are covered, and there's no mapping between annotations and > their icons. But the interface was *really* slow, almost unusable. I > wonder why. I possibly overlooked something. > biddings need digitally signed pdfs. Easy to create with acroread. Not so easy with anything else. And that 'feature' is not arcane nor seldomly used.