is there something other than evince on centos 5.1 to view pdf's? Every time I am remoted in using vncviewer and look at attached emails it KILLS my X11 session. If I am at my desktop it works fine. xpdf used to work fine on 4.X - but it was removed in 5.X. Is there an alternative? Thanks, Jerry
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:> is there something other than evince on centos 5.1 to view pdf's? > Every time I am remoted in using vncviewer and look at attached emails > it KILLS my X11 session. > > If I am at my desktop it works fine. > > xpdf used to work fine on 4.X - but it was removed in 5.X. > > Is there an alternative? >Not really. You could try and download the acroread from adobe. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
Am Donnerstag, den 13.03.2008, 16:24 -0400 schrieb Jerry Geis:> is there something other than evince on centos 5.1 to view pdf's? > Every time I am remoted in using vncviewer and look at attached emails > it KILLS my X11 session. > > If I am at my desktop it works fine. > > xpdf used to work fine on 4.X - but it was removed in 5.X. > > Is there an alternative? >AFAIK Fedora EPEL has xpdf packages in it's repository. -- Heiko Adams <heiko.adams at gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080313/e452c87b/attachment-0002.sig>
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 16:24 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:> is there something other than evince on centos 5.1 to view pdf's? > Every time I am remoted in using vncviewer and look at attached emails > it KILLS my X11 session. > > If I am at my desktop it works fine. > > xpdf used to work fine on 4.X - but it was removed in 5.X. > > Is there an alternative?I use Adobe's acroread. Works very well. But don't get the 8.* series - it's broken in printer interface and is a little bloated do to a not yet really useful voice reader capability.> > Thanks, > > Jerry > <snip sig stuff>HTH -- Bill
Jerry Geis a ?crit :> > xpdf used to work fine on 4.X - but it was removed in 5.X. >A more general remark: if an app can't be found in CentOS, even in the RPMForge repos, it's easy to build it from a Fedora Core 6 SRPM. I have written a small HOWTO here: http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3?id_article=10 It's in french, but the commands are just plain shell :oD Cheers, Niki PS: if you want, I can build xpdf for you and add it to my repo. Just mail me privately, and I can do it today).