[pdftex] ``Reload'' function for Adobe Reader (Linux)

[George N. White III]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Jim Diamond <Jim.Diamond at acadiau.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 17:18 (+0200), ???????? ???????????????? wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:58:22AM -0500, John Culleton wrote:
>>> Evince does not live on my Slackware Linux partition. Is it a Debian
>>> package?
>> ---end quoted text---
>
>> Yup !
>
> That is a misleading answer by ?????? ?????????.
>
> Evince is the gnome pdf viewer.  Since slackware no longer has gnome,
> you won't have it unless you install one of the gnome add-ons.
>
> Having said that, I'm not sure it is any better than kpdf or adobe
> acrobat 7, so you may not want to go to great lengths to try it out.
> (You could d/l Ubuntu 8.10, burn a cd, boot from the cd and try it out
> without installing anything.)

Or any live linux distro that uses gnome.

Evince relies on libpoppler for rendering, so blame rendering problems on
libpoppler and check for a newer version.


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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia