On Sun, 30 May 2010 10:56:05 +0200, peter linnell wrote: > On 5/29/10 7:43 PM, TSH wrote: >> On Sat, 29 May 2010 11:59:08 -0400, John Culleton wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 27 May 2010 19:00:51 Ray wrote: >>>> My thanks to all those who replied to my query re printing from >>> Scribus. >>>> Does anyone have a recommendation for a suitable PDF reader, >>> other than >>>> Acrobat, for this purpose. >>>> >>>> Ned >>> >>> >>> Well I have found Adobe Acrobat Reader to be very useful. And it is >>> free. Do you have a problem with it? >> >> >> It's free in the sense that it doesn't cost any money to install or >> use, and it does have some useful features. But I have found that it >> tends to impose itself upon your system, making itself the default pdf >> application everywhere, without asking if you want this default >> behaviour, or necessarily giving you the option. >> >> I prefer the relative simplicity of Evince, which comes packaged with >> many Gnome desktops, including Ubuntu. >> >> A more basic option is ePDF, and gv (formerly ghostview) looks >> interesting, though I haven't used it myself. >> >> >> > Please read carefully: > http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=toolbox > > http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=toolbox1 > > There are valid long standing reasons why the team reccommends Adobe > Reader for working with Scribus pdf. > > The others mentioned simply lack support for some of the more advanced > features of PDF which Scribus exports.
I was simply answering the question which asked about pdf readers /other/ than Acrobat (sic). But I was quite clear that the ones I mentioned were limited in their abilities. It must be for a user to decide which is most suited to their needs. Personally, I keep Adobe Reader on a virtual machine, so that I can check and compare outputs. But for regular use on my daily machine, I prefer Evince. Not all end users will have Adobe anyway, so viewing it on readers other than that is a good idea - advanced features are all very well, but if a user can't access them, they're not necessarily an advantage. -- Stewart H. Posting via Gmane
