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

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Tue Sep 2 22:40:07 WST 2003


Lawrie Abbott wrote:
> Craig,
> Got any links to pdfs that dont render well with Xpdf?

No, but I should be able to find some when I'm at work tomorrow. 
Assuming I remember. I usually have trouble with CMYK colours looking 
wrong, or with embedded fonts not displaying in the correct typeface.

James Devenish wrote:
 >>The staff need to be able to preview PDFs as the client will see them
 >>on their system, and that means Acrobat Reader.
 >
 > That's almost a disturbing concept, given that PDF is an open format

True, but it appears that currently Adobe has the best implementation - 
at least for the POST's needs. Horrifying really, given the relatively 
awful UI (motif, clunky) of Acrobat Reader, it's unicode-incompatability 
and it's rather well-aged nature compared to implementations for other 
platforms.

Craig Ringer



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