On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 04:57:11PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:18:09 +0100 > Klistvud <quotati...@aliceadsl.fr> dijo: > > > Dne, 21. 11. 2009 21:10:38 je John Jason Jordan napisal(a): > > > the way I want it. I still have some troublesome apps to install > > > (realplayer, xaralx, foxit reader), but I had them working on Jaunty, > > > > Just out of curiosity, as an ex-foxit-user to foxit-user: what does > > foxit reader have that other (GNU/Linux) pdf readers don't have? > > I write and publish textbooks for linguistics. Generally I don't have a > problem with PDFs, but occasionally something happens that requires > additional tools. > > Recently I received a PDF created in InDesign by a colleague of a local > professor. She had never used InDesign before and could not understand > my instructions. I knew I was in trouble after the following > conversation: > > Me: What program did you use to create this file? > Her: Windows > > I needed to try every possible PDF viewer to find one that would output > the file to my laser printers. Adobe Reader would open the file, but > printing was glacial. Okular was almost as bad. Evince wouldn't print > it at all. Foxit did the best job, but was still slow. Finally I had to > open the file in Windows and print to PRN file from Adobe Reader there. > I found the PRN file would print beautifully from the command line with > lpr. > > I should add that Foxit is one of the few PDF viewers that can handle > editable PDFs. Okular doesn't do all possible controls, and Adobe > Reader / Linux does not either. > > There are PDFs and then there are PDFs. > There's a free reader for Windows that I like called Sumatra PDF. In case you need another one for your list...
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