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

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Yes, I see what you mean about the manual maintenance.  There's really no choice on Windows, but I did turn on auto updates on every app that allows it.  Foxit has that option on Windows.  I've been bitten by auto updates a couple of times on android apps, but it probably solves more problems than it creates.  When I get to my configuring Mint 13 week, I'll have to see what update options Foxit has in that environment.

I haven't tried the other readers you mentioned, other than evince.  If they can read that computerpoweruser magazine pdf I mentioned, and let me easily scroll and and zoom and control the document, that would probably meet most of my needs.  So, I might have to look into them.  I do like to use the same apps, configured the same way, on each machine whenever possible.

By the way, foxit also has paid and free android apps.

Sincerely,

Ron


JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

>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:
>> 
>> 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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