Which is the best PDF utility ?

[Frank Staals]

Chuck Robey wrote:

> Frank Staals wrote:
>
>> edward wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to 
>>> read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as "broken" 
>>> in the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the 
>>> best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use 
>>> KDE.
>>> Thanks for your insight on this.
>>> Edward
>>>
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>> What the 'best' is I wouldn't know, I ussually use xpfd works simple 
>> and effective, has no useless functions etc but works fine. So for 
>> what I do with it I would say xpdf is good, at least good enough for 
>> me. If you want to see it just use the command 'xpdf' its default 
>> supplied with Xorg If I'm correct
>
>
> Xorg is not a package that includes other packages, such as some 
> operating systems.  By that I mean, if you get Xorg as such by that 
> name, it's not going to include other tools (such as the excellent 
> xpdf).  The only way you'g get xpdf with Xorg is if you got Xorg in a 
> package of something like KDE, where packaging in other tools IS very 
> likely.

Hmm my mistake, I installed xpdf a long time ago and I didn't recall I 
had to install it manually but indeed it is a seperate package:

frank at Riza$ pkg_info | grep xpdf
xpdf-3.00_6         Display PDF files, and convert them to other formats

But in any case xpdf works fine :)

Frank Staals