[geeks] encrypted video cable?

[Michael-John Turner]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:36:04PM -0500, velociraptor wrote:
> The rendering of the OSS pdf viewers/printers is atrocious compared to
> Adobe's however.    I never really noticed this until I printed some
> things recently.  I don't know if this is an issue with all pdfs, or
> only with some.  I have not noticed the issue on the Mac.  However,
> their pdf rendering code is licensed from Adobe.  I wonder if Mac's
> preview "phones home"?

I've had good luck with Evince, which seems to do a good job rendering the
PDFs I've thrown at it (the majority of them generated by Acrobat running
on Windows). It's also fast and has a fairly decent UI.

Of course, it's a GNOME application, so it has its fair share of
dependencies: 
[pa] mj at majestic:~$ ldd `which evince` |wc -l
      66
(that's on a NetBSD/alpha system)

-mj
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