Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?
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 there is version mixup involving one of the dependencies used by KPDF. Any idea which dependency is concerned or how I can bail out of this ? Edward 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 notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use KDE. Thanks for your insight on this. Edward kpdf, which is based on xpdf (other recommended xpdf) is a part of KDE, and thus integrates well with the rest of your KDE environment. I like it. The Adobe reader would be better if it wasn't such a pain to install and use. (I have a windows machine with acrobat, but when I need to view a pdf I move to my FreeBSD machine so I can use kpdf) kpdf is a part of kdegraphics, which is in ports as: /usr/ports/graphics/kdegraphics3 I'd call this your best bet because you use KDE already. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which is the best PDF utility ?
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?
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 notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use KDE. Thanks for your insight on this. Edward kpdf, which is based on xpdf (other recommended xpdf) is a part of KDE, and thus integrates well with the rest of your KDE environment. I like it. The Adobe reader would be better if it wasn't such a pain to install and use. (I have a windows machine with acrobat, but when I need to view a pdf I move to my FreeBSD machine so I can use kpdf) kpdf is a part of kdegraphics, which is in ports as: /usr/ports/graphics/kdegraphics3 I'd call this your best bet because you use KDE already. 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 there is version mixup involving one of the dependencies used by KPDF. Any idea which dependency is concerned or how I can bail out of this ? You're missing devel/libidn. However, for something with many dependencies like kdegraphics3, I'd recommend building it from ports in order to pull in dependencies more easily. Are you familiar with using ports? If not, here's some basic info: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/12/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html and there are many more helpful articles on the site, as well as excellent info in the handbook. - jt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?
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 PROTECTED]
Which is the best PDF utility ?
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 your insight on this. Edward ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?
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. Thanks for your insight on this. (this question better asked on FreeBSD-Ports list) xpdf has been steadily improving over the years, and it's really pretty good now. Edward ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?
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. Thanks for your insight on this. Edward ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What the 'best' is I wouldn't know, I ussually use xpfd works simple and effective, has no useless functions etc but works fine. So for what I do with it I would say xpdf is good, at least good enough for me. If you want to see it just use the command 'xpdf' its default supplied with Xorg If I'm correct Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?
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 forgot, I use KDE. Thanks for your insight on this. Edward ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What the 'best' is I wouldn't know, I ussually use xpfd works simple and effective, has no useless functions etc but works fine. So for what I do with it I would say xpdf is good, at least good enough for me. If you want to see it just use the command 'xpdf' its default supplied with Xorg If I'm correct Xorg is not a package that includes other packages, such as some operating systems. By that I mean, if you get Xorg as such by that name, it's not going to include other tools (such as the excellent xpdf). The only way you'g get xpdf with Xorg is if you got Xorg in a package of something like KDE, where packaging in other tools IS very likely. Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?
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 reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use KDE. Thanks for your insight on this. (this question better asked on FreeBSD-Ports list) xpdf has been steadily improving over the years, and it's really pretty good now. I've found cases where acroread wouldn't print properly through CUPS while xpdf printed fine. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny ... In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges. -- William Ellery Channing ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?
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 reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use KDE. Thanks for your insight on this. Edward ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What the 'best' is I wouldn't know, I ussually use xpfd works simple and effective, has no useless functions etc but works fine. So for what I do with it I would say xpdf is good, at least good enough for me. If you want to see it just use the command 'xpdf' its default supplied with Xorg If I'm correct Xorg is not a package that includes other packages, such as some operating systems. By that I mean, if you get Xorg as such by that name, it's not going to include other tools (such as the excellent xpdf). The only way you'g get xpdf with Xorg is if you got Xorg in a package of something like KDE, where packaging in other tools IS very likely. Hmm my mistake, I installed xpdf a long time ago and I didn't recall I had to install it manually but indeed it is a seperate package: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pkg_info | grep xpdf xpdf-3.00_6 Display PDF files, and convert them to other formats But in any case xpdf works fine :) Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?
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, almost forgot, I use KDE. So, haven't you tried Kpdf from KDE 3.4? It's the best X-windows PDF reader I've used. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?
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. Edward 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 notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use KDE. Thanks for your insight on this. Edward kpdf, which is based on xpdf (other recommended xpdf) is a part of KDE, and thus integrates well with the rest of your KDE environment. I like it. The Adobe reader would be better if it wasn't such a pain to install and use. (I have a windows machine with acrobat, but when I need to view a pdf I move to my FreeBSD machine so I can use kpdf) kpdf is a part of kdegraphics, which is in ports as: /usr/ports/graphics/kdegraphics3 I'd call this your best bet because you use KDE already. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?
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 Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use KDE. So, haven't you tried Kpdf from KDE 3.4? It's the best X-windows PDF reader I've used. Yeah, I'd second that. xpdf doesn't always get formatting right, and Kpdf usually does, at least in my experience. I'd rather use it than a working Acrobat, frankly. I use xpdf on machines where KDE is too large or cumbersome, such as my old Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop (300MHz). - jt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?
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 ? I personally like acroread[0] and gv (not at all ggv BTW), in that order. I have not tried xpdf in quite a while (ever since i found gv and/or acroread to be much better when the last time i tried xpdf). [0] Acroread 5.10 currently; am not going to install version 7 anytime soon due to onerous dependencies. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
