Re: Early thoughts on FC3

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja darkwing uoregon edu>]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Preston Crawford wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 06:25, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Once upon a time, Daniel Stonier <snorri_dj operamail com> said:
> > > Just curious, why do so many users go and get acrobat reader?
> > > I've always just used ghostview/kghostview for pdf files without a problem.
> > 
> > There is no other PDF plugin AFAIK.  Also, ghostview and xpdf don't
> > support all PDF files (no form fill-in, some things don't render right,
> > etc.), and acroread is usually much faster at rendering.
> 
> So you download the PDF and then open it. 

actually if you have mozilla plugger installed it can swallow xpdf in the 
browser without trouble... now there are certain pdfs you can't open with 
xpdf, but that's because acrobat is neither open nor a standard.

joelja
 
> Preston
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