[plug] [link] big news - Tel$ra on Linux ?

Lawrie Abbott lawrieabbott at iinet.net.au
Tue Sep 2 19:17:10 WST 2003


Craig Ringer wrote:

>>> It's particularly annoying given that the
>>> Acrobat Reader license dialog is very large, and hangs over the
>>> bottom of most screens.
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>> xPDF / GhostView not good enough?
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> Nowhere near it. #1 problem is their problems with embedded fonts, but 
> they also support CMYK colour spaces poorly or not at all, and 
> generally just don't behave well with many of the PDFs we get. The 
> staff need to be able to preview PDFs as the client will see them on 
> their system, and that means Acrobat Reader. They also need to be able 
> to check ads supplied as PDF by clients.
>
> Xpdf is all well and good, but it doesn't do the job here.
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> Craig Ringer
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Craig,
Got any links to pdfs that dont render well with Xpdf?
And BTW i managed to sort my no "su konqueror" problem out.., there was 
a bug in "arts", which was much reported on the KDE mailing list, and 
eventually someone posted a patch.


Lawrie



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