Early thoughts on FC3

Jay Daniels drs at pointyhats.com
Wed Apr 28 14:55:34 UTC 2004


On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 04:29:32PM +1000, Daniel Stonier wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:06:04 +0100 (BST), K.M.Zammi Kahan 
> <ezammi at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >3. Some missing plug-ins like (Flash, JRE etc). Today readers like 
> >acobat reader & Chm reader (xchm) etc also playing a big role.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel.

Because for some reason (in the past) x based pdf viewers are slow and
crash on many pdf documents.

I have never had any trouble with acrobat for linux except for it's
old X style window placement covering up the gnome-panel.


jay





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