[ale] PDF reader

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Tue Mar 13 17:51:46 EDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 17:42 -0400, James Baker wrote:
> This works fine for all the .pdfs I've had to deal with.
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince
> 

I've used xpdf, but have not used this.  It is loaded by default on
Ubuntu's install.  I can keep Acrobat for CLI usage.  I need to locate
the MIME type for pdf in Firefox and change it to evince.  

I think the problem with Acrobat is that it installs a plug-in that just
works poorly.  I'm fine if the browser saves the file in /tmp and forks
a process of xpdf or evince.

Thanks for the replies,
Chris



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