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PDF is not that bad as long as you have an good enough reader (i.e. no acrobat)
by jpablo 17y ago
PDF 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.