<div dir="ltr">Jim,<div><br></div><div>Please send me small PDF files showing these examples you bring about and </div><div>we will start a discussion. Without the PDF examples it is very hard.</div><div><br></div><div>Paulo Ney</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 4:36 PM Jim Diamond via texhax <<a href="mailto:texhax@tug.org">texhax@tug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 15:45 (-0700), Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:<br>
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> They do not have any experience making software for Unix and the<br>
> versions they put out for Linux, Solaris, AIX, ... were all lacking<br>
> pretty seriously... it was never a contender for anything useful.<br>
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> OpenSource and other vendors did a much better job with readers for<br>
> Linux and Adobe did not want to be compared to any of them.<br>
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I can't agree. I have found no Linux PDF viewer which renders fonts<br>
and thin lines anywhere near as well as Acroread. (Well, maybe not<br>
completely true... the PDF renderer in Opera at least knows how to do<br>
sub-pixel rendering, unlike any stand-alone PDF viewers I've tried.)<br>
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I've also found that the stand-alone viewers I've tried on Linux don't<br>
do a good job of rendering white fonts on coloured backgrounds. For<br>
example, I use white text on a dark blue background for data projector<br>
slides, and I put the page number in a fairly small font (12 pt?), and<br>
that is fairly illegible in a number of PDF viewers I've tried, even<br>
though in Acroread it is nice and crisp. I don't know how much of<br>
this is due to SPR and how much is due to other algorithms.<br>
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The other benefit of Acroread is that it can read oms PDF docs that<br>
none of the open-source readers I've tried can handle. And sometimes<br>
I have no real choice about using those documents. (Government forms;<br>
I've tried arguing with people in the government, and I may as well go<br>
down to the ocean and try to keep the tide from coming in.)<br>
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I am not an Adobe fan, but credit where credit is due. Even if it is<br>
only a tiny amount of credit.<br>
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Perhaps your experience is different, or you have found better PDF<br>
viewers than I have. If you have a recommendation, I'd be happy to<br>
hear it, because having to mess around to get a 32-bit executable<br>
(Acroread 9.5.5) to run on a 64-bit only system is a nuisance.<br>
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Cheers.<br>
<br>
Jim<br>
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