Jason Wallwork wrote:

> The voice of reason! I, myself, use proprietary programs that are free, but 
> not Free like Acrobat Reader. xPDF doesn't always work. I also use Win4Lin to 
> run the odd Windows application and downloaded Microsoft fonts (gasp!) inside 
> of Linux. I suspect I'm not the only one that is gung-ho for Linux *and* uses 
> proprietary applications. The choice should be up to the user. I use Linux 
> because it is better, not because it is cheaper, and not because I can modify 
> the source code, since I know barely enough C to write a Hello World program 
> :P


ditto - especially when XPDF won't allow one to take advantage of the 
"advanced" features that are ruquired with some PDF's, like filling in 
form data or reading annotations/comments. If I can use XPDF I will, but 
acroread is on my Linux hard-drive, just in case.



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