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120128 Sergei Trofimovich wrote: |
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>> Is there an alternative which doesn't require eg 'kdelibs' or similar ? |
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>> In my netbook, Xpdf is the only method I have of reading PDFs, |
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>> as I use Fluxbox & don't have KDE installed at all. |
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> It should not stop you from trying okular (kdelibs based) |
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Well no ! -- I don't want to have any KDE in my netbook : |
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I use a lot of KDE apps on my desktop, incl Okular, but not in the netbook. |
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> and evince (libgnome based). They are really neat. |
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> For lightweight variants you might like to look |
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> at app-text/epdfview and app-text/gsview. |
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Thanks for this & other comments + advice. |
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I've installed Evince Epdfview Zathura. Evince looks as usable as Xpdf |
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& Epdfview is also simple & effective; Zathura works, but relies largely |
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on keys (ok) & the index toggles, which is not quite as usable. |
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Epdfview has the advantage over Evince that it needs no deps, |
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so that's what I may use in my netbook. |
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I also noticed a note in my homemade list of installed pkgs |
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that I had to patch Xpdf to avoid the slow-start problem, |
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so I'm satisfied that it cb consigned to history. |
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