[ale] switching to foxit for pdf viewing with or without adobe as backup

[JD]

Excellent points, but the point to use only PPA or repo available software
stands. I am not any fan of evince either, so trying other programs is
definitely useful.
There are 5+ different PDF viewers in the repos, most work good enough for my
needs - even xpdf. If you have tried most of them already, great.

Sometimes there really is no substitute, but signing up for manual maintenance
for the next 5-20 yrs should be avoided too.


On 03/22/2013 11:37 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
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> My experience with evince on Ubuntu, which is what I believe loads when you start document viewer, is that it's abilities for viewing complex pdf's and controlling page layout and zoom and switching are far inferior to Adobe Reader.  At one point, I had Adobe Reader installed in Ubuntu because it just works better.  Although, now, I might reverse that.  The feature set of Foxit seems far more comparable to Adobe, while still being more secure, they say.  I haven't tried to install it on linux yet, so I don't know if there is a ppa.  Regarding flash, I find that indispensable.  There are tons of sites that won't work without it.  However, I only allow it to run on sites I trust using noscript, as you suggested.  My banking sites, as it turns out, are happy enough using javascript.  They don't have to have flash.  That ruby on rails video you posted in another thread is Youtube.  Gotta have flash for that.
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