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You know a product is bad when people prefer to PDF... (apologies for going off-topic - I just couldn't resist this one)
by matrix 17y ago
You know a product is bad when people prefer to PDF...
(apologies for going off-topic - I just couldn't resist this one)
- jpablo 17y agoPDF is not that bad as long as you have an good enough reader (i.e. no acrobat)
- joe_the_user 17y agoEvidence? I'm on Linix, I've tried the default readers and they are all horrific. What would you recommend, seriously. I have never found a pleasant PDF reader on any platform but I'm open to the idea they might exist.
- boucher 17y agoPreview is a pretty solid app. Unfortunately, I've never across anything remotely well done on any other platform.
- ecuzzillo 17y agoExcept when you have pdfs that use certain funny image-compression things that make it look fantastic in Acrobat and xpdf-based viewers; Preview does horribly on those. I agree in general about Preview, though. (It might be jpeg2000; I just know that when my dad scans a book, it looks good in acroread and xpdf, but in Preview it's very slow and pixelated.)
- weaksauce 17y agoPreview is good but I like skim a bit more. It has the note taking features and smooth zooming with trackpad pinch gestures. I cannot believe how fast it is too! Great app. One thing I wish it had though is the pdf editing commands that preview had to remove a page and concatenate different pdfs together. Also: foxit reader is a great reader for window. Not quite as polished as skim but still the best reader I have come into contact with on the windows side of the fence.
- Niten 17y agoI guess you've never tried PDF-XChange or Sumatra PDF, then.
- sreque 17y agoI like okular, the default KDE reader, a lot actually.
- btilly 17y agoI'm not sure what you mean by "pleasant" but xpdf gets the job done.
- chronomex 17y agoI like FoxitReader. It's non-free, but it does do facing pages continuous, which is great for reading on widescreen monitors.
- sliverstorm 17y agoCall me crazy, but acroread really worked pretty well for me.
- d_c 17y agoIt's true for me anyway.