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Re: Popular locker software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth Arnold)
Wed Jul 2 12:20:10 2008
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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:19:25 -0400
From: Kenneth Arnold <kcarnold@MIT.EDU>
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Greg Hudson wrote:
> acroread, applixware, and tecplot are easy since they have existing menu
> items under the 9.4 panel.
>
acroread and DrScheme both have Ubuntu packages (the former only in
Mediabuntu, though). DrScheme is indeed graphical, and quite nice.
>> About "Native PDF reader"- does this mean acroread, or some other Open
>> Source pdf viewer? I have a feeling most users will prefer to use
>> acroread.
>>
>
> It's called evince. It's fast, it has good usability in my experience,
> I've never seen it have difficulty rendering anything, and it does
> fill-in forms (though I don't think it can save them).
>
evince is indeed good. I thought poorly of it for "missing features"
until I started looking for them today. It does indeed have index
browsing (what acroread calls I think "Bookmarks"), a Back button,
continuous-page display (which helps with speed too), and even the hand
tool (hold down the middle button). I haven't tried forms though.
acroread should still be available, though, for the corner cases.
-Ken
