On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 01:47 +0200, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 23:08 +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > 2010/1/27 Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > I suspect a lot of our users will be similarly annoyed. This is one of > > > those kinds of tools that "just works" and so people stick with it. > > > > Well.. perhaps. OTOH people seem to have happily migrated from xpdf to > > evince over time (or at least that's my perception). > > What do you mean? > > # yum -y install xpdf > (clip) > ---> Package xpdf.x86_64 1:3.02-15.fc12 set to be updated > > xpdf is still there, so actually nothing brutal has yet happened in the > case of xpdf. When xpdf *is* removed I'd expect cries of rage. Indeed, there are several features of xpdf that evince doesn't yet support. Until it does, it turns out to be useless with emacs-auctex, for one thing. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451210 > > ** > > For PDFs I personally have used evince ever since it was introduced in > Fedora. In the case of PDFs the wait for a page to load is just a second > or so. > > For PS (or EPS!) files, on the other hand, evince can be *really* slow > in my experience. Often I just convert the files to PDF first with > ps2pdf or epstopdf - if a file doesn't seem to open launching another > terminal, converting the file to PDF and launching another evince > process to view it is quicker to display than the original process that > had been running all the time in the background. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
