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From: Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:29:56 +0530
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Acroread
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On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
>> On 2013-02-17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>>> On Feb 17, 2013 3:04 PM, "Yohan Pereira" <yohan.pereira@gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
>> http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
>>
>
> Installed acroread with nsplugin use flag. It didn't add to
> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins. Symlinked manually.
> Still doesn't show up, neither in chromium nor in firefox.
>
> So my primary purpose is defeated lol.
>
> Going to try kparts now :-)
>
> --
> Nilesh Govindrajan
> http://nileshgr.com
kpartsplugin is perfect. Thanks a ton!
--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com