Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-28 Thread edward
Hi, I installed it though pkg_add -r kdegraphics3. Install seemed to go all right. Then the software added itself to the K menu. But KPDF doesn't launch. When started from the console, I get : # kpdf /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libidn.so.16 not found, required by kpdf My guess is that

Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-28 Thread Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)
KDE has kpdf, GNOME has gpdf. Both are alright if you want to read. There's also a possibility of running Adobe's Acrobat, but as far as I know it needs Linux emulation. It's the ugliest of the three, but the most functional. Mike ___

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
Please don't top-post ... On Thu 28 Apr 05 05:13, edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Henry Miller wrote: On 4/26/2005 at 19:13 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

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-27 Thread Thomas Leveille
For gnome/GTK users, evince looks like the best choice. http://www.freshports.org/graphics/evince/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread edward
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

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Robey
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.

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Frank Staals
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.

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Robey
Frank Staals wrote: 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

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005, Chuck Robey wrote: 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

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Frank Staals
Chuck Robey wrote: Frank Staals wrote: 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

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Gustavo De Nardin
Hi. 2005/4/26, edward [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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,

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread edward
Thanks for the suggestion Henry. I'll try it straight away. To all the others who kindly answered my question and suggested xpdf, the utility works well. No thumbnails, though. And something slightly more KDE-ish would be cool. But it definitely showed me which way to go. Thanks again gang.

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Tue 26 Apr 05 15:56, Gustavo De Nardin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. 2005/4/26, edward [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote edward thusly... 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