120128 Sergei Trofimovich wrote: >> Is there an alternative which doesn't require eg 'kdelibs' or similar ? >> In my netbook, Xpdf is the only method I have of reading PDFs, >> as I use Fluxbox & don't have KDE installed at all. > It should not stop you from trying okular (kdelibs based)
Well no ! -- I don't want to have any KDE in my netbook : I use a lot of KDE apps on my desktop, incl Okular, but not in the netbook. > and evince (libgnome based). They are really neat. > For lightweight variants you might like to look > at app-text/epdfview and app-text/gsview. Thanks for this & other comments + advice. I've installed Evince Epdfview Zathura. Evince looks as usable as Xpdf & Epdfview is also simple & effective; Zathura works, but relies largely on keys (ok) & the index toggles, which is not quite as usable. Epdfview has the advantage over Evince that it needs no deps, so that's what I may use in my netbook. I also noticed a note in my homemade list of installed pkgs that I had to patch Xpdf to avoid the slow-start problem, so I'm satisfied that it cb consigned to history. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
