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Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye

From	Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye
Date	2016-09-06 22:28 +0000
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On Tue, 06 Sep 2016 13:55:35 -0700, Eric Douglas wrote:

> On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 3:58:48 PM UTC-4, Martin Gregorie
> wrote:
>> For instance, the new Vivaldi browser, written by the original Opera
>> developers, is potentially very good and quite a bit faster than
>> Firefox,
>> but in practise is almost unusable because you can only view files with
>> the builtin tools. Its PDF viewer is woeful: doesn't provide any way to
>> skip to a given page and is incapable of dealing with very long PDFs
>> such as the NASA Columbia or the Dutch MH17 crash reports, respectively
>> 248 and 279 pages. In both cases it stalls when asked to load these
>> PDFs. OTOH, other browsers, e.d Firefox or Pale Moon, don't have a
>> built-in PDF viewer but DO let you choose to use evince, xpdf or to
>> nominate another application.
> 
> I found your Dutch crash report, again no problem displaying in Chrome.
> https://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/uploads/phase-docs/1006/
debcd724fe7breport-mh17-crash.pdf

Vivaldi claims to be using the Chrome PDF viewer as a plugin, but as I 
said, it only works for smaller files, so make of that what you will. 

In addition, and unlike xpdf, it neither shows the current page number 
nor allows it to be entered as a short cut to that page. Nor does it 
appear to display a section/chapter index, if one is part of the PDF, as 
a sidebar. Both are necessary if you're trying to read a big PDF in 
multiple sessions or using it as a reference.

-- 
martin@   | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-08-24 08:37 -0400
  How about 2K and 4K Displays? (Was: Kiss your Applet good-bye) j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2016-08-24 16:38 +0200
    Re: How about 2K and 4K Displays? (Was: Kiss your Applet good-bye) j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2016-08-24 16:44 +0200
    Re: How about 2K and 4K Displays? (Was: Kiss your Applet good-bye) Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-09-14 15:08 -0700
  Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2016-08-24 16:57 +0000
    Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-08-24 10:08 -0700
    Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-24 20:10 -0400
  Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-24 20:06 -0400
    Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-08-25 04:42 -0700
  Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-09-04 23:12 -0700
    Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-09-05 09:02 -0400
      Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-09-05 21:31 +0000
        Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-09-05 18:18 -0400
          Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-09-06 12:08 -0700
            Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-06 13:17 -0700
              Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-09-06 19:27 -0400
            Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-09-06 19:24 -0400
          Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-09-06 19:58 +0000
            Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-06 13:08 -0700
            Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-06 13:55 -0700
              Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-09-06 22:28 +0000
  Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 12:44 -0700
    Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-10-14 15:52 -0400
      Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 13:07 -0700
    Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Tim Slattery <tim@risingdove.com> - 2016-10-15 15:08 -0400
      Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-10-03 13:54 -0700
        Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2017-10-04 07:25 +0800
          Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-10-04 08:09 +0000

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