kpdf vs gpdf

lambada · Apprentice Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 157

Hi,

I had to prepare some documents for school that included diagrams and was using lyx (latex frontend) for that purpose. The diagrams were in pdf format and I viewed my documents with kpdf. At that point I noticed that the diagrams looked horrible. After some time and frustration, I viewed them in acroread and gpdf and they looked very good. Conclusion:

1. kpdf has nice features but poor rendering of images
2. gpdf has poor features but good rendering
3. acroread has both but very slow to load.

It seems I am stuck with acroread in the end and gpdf for quick glimpses. Did anybody else notice this/ Is there another option ?

Edit: Just found Evince. Seems to have all I'm looking for ...

Thanks,
lambada

Vann · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 357

Yes, evince is the best PDF reader on Linux right now. Everyone should use it, unless they're cuh-raaazy.

widremann · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 1314

CorpseOfMystic · Apprentice Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 159

Can't replicate. KPDF draws images perfectly for me. I can't imagine using anything else. gpdf/evince are crippled and can't render nearly as well, and they won't be able to until KPDF's developers merge their xpdf improvements into libpoppler.

lambada · Apprentice Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 157

That's weird that kpdf works for you. I have a pretty new install of gentoo here and it doesn't. Did you do anything special?
Too bad we can't attach in these forums. I would have sent you my pdf document to try.

Taladar · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject:

I use xpdf, it has all features I need, good rendering and (most important) neither kde nor gnome dependencies.