handling pdfs?

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:09:14 -0500
Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> wrote:

> Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > xpdf allows printing of page ranges. I use it all the time.
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure why, maybe I have too poor a font selection here, but the 
> fonts, I mean, the onscreen fonts that xpdf seems to choose, always 
> seems to run characters together, so it gets hard to read them.  So, 
> xpdf wouldn't be my first choice.  I use kpdf to view pdfs for that 
> particular reason, and onthe same document, kpdf does a distinctly 
> better job,  If kpdf uses xpdf's engine, then it must find some way to 
> pick better fonts for itself, it actually does look better.

I personally find that xpdf looks OK.

I avoid things like kpdf because I don't use KDE and don't really need
all the bloat associated with it. But that's just me.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn
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