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Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

From Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince
Date 2023-12-06 13:40 +0100
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On 06/12/2023 12:14, tomas wrote:
> Debian Bullseye here. Xpdf links against libpoppler102, which has
> GPLv2 or V3, same as xpdf.

Perhaps fact checking of the following is required. Gnome forked xpdf to 
have a library (poppler) for a PDF viewer (evince). For security reasons 
Debian maintainers are against of slightly different copies of the same 
code. Including xpdf-3, it was painful, but still manageable to adjust 
xpdf code for poppler. Since that time the upstream project released 
xpdf-4. It is packaged for Arch, but it is unlikely that it will appear 
in Debian since the code diverged even more making UI part hardly 
compatible with poppler.

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Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 00:20 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2023-12-05 01:30 +0100
    Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-12-05 06:50 +0100
    Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-05 08:20 +0100
    Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 12:40 +0100
      Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 18:10 +0100
        Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 18:50 +0100
        Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2023-12-05 23:10 +0100
          Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-06 06:20 +0100
            Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince yxcv@vienna.at - 2023-12-06 10:10 +0100
            Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-12-06 13:40 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2023-12-05 03:30 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 06:30 +0100
    Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 19:10 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-05 08:20 +0100
    Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 12:40 +0100
      Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2023-12-05 14:30 +0100
        Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Bert Riding <reriding@xmission.com> - 2023-12-07 05:30 +0100
    Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Charles Kroeger <mbone@gmx.co.uk> - 2023-12-08 14:10 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince yxcv@vienna.at - 2023-12-05 08:30 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2023-12-05 09:30 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince marathon <marathon.durandal@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 12:20 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 13:10 +0100

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