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Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

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On Wednesday 09 May 2018 21:58:12 Ben Finney wrote:

> Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> writes:
> > but my acrobat reader in stretch is painfully slow in displaying
> > them
>
> Acrobat Reader is non-free software, which means the GNU+Linux
> community cannot do anything to improve that software.
>
> What's more, even Adobe is no longer supporting that program on
> GNU+Linux <URL:https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2273757>. So whatever
> problems it has, will likely remain and get worse over time.
>
> So I am not too surprised that it performs badly :-)
>
> > which program can you recommend? Thanks!
>
> The catalogue at <URL:https://pdfreaders.org/> can be useful.
>
> The Evince viewer <URL:https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince> is clean
> and nice to use, and in the GNOME desktop environment, Evince is the
> default Document Viewer program for PDF and many other formats.
>
There are some pdf's that evince can't print, but okular hasn't failed 
me, yet.

> You can start with that; I have never needed anything else for PDF
> since I started using Evince :-)



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which program do you recommend to read pdf file Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-10 03:40 +0200
  Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2018-05-10 04:00 +0200
    Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-05-10 04:20 +0200
      Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-05-10 09:50 +0200
      Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-05-10 13:10 +0200
  Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-05-10 04:10 +0200
  Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-05-10 04:30 +0200
    Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file rv riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2018-05-10 05:40 +0200
  Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-10 05:40 +0200
  Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2018-05-10 07:20 +0200

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