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This was awesome, but I recommend viewing the high-res PDF instead: http://www.createwithcontext.com/landing-iphone.html http://www.createwithcontext.com/landin
by briansmith 18y ago
This was awesome, but I recommend viewing the high-res PDF instead: http://www.createwithcontext.com/landing-iphone.html http://www.createwithcontext.com/landing-iphone.html
Incidentally, Scribd and Slideshare have given me a newfound appreciation for Adobe Acrobat. A couple of years ago nobody would have said "I just want a good old PDF."
- alaskamiller 18y agoI love PDFs. I hate Acrobat.
- kirubakaran 18y agoI love xpdf.
- nailer 18y agoEvince is fine for me. What does xpdf do that Evince doesn't?
- rsheridan6 18y agoIt has a smaller footprint, if that matters to you.
- alextp 18y agoxpdf has better anti-aliasing in my computers, usually. Pdfs from jstor for example look awful under evince and ok on xpdf.
- mnemonik 18y agoI haven't heard of xpdf or evince before and have been using foxit, how does this compare?
- wfarr 18y agoWhile I haven't used them in direct comparison, it is worth noting that Evince is shipped with GNOME in nearly all GNOME-based Linux distributions, and xpdf has the added bonus of not relying on a specific toolkit. Mind, you can certainly use Evince outside of GNOME, but people have their own reasons for avoiding such things. The bottom line is that both work acceptably well, and do so much better than Adobe's own offerings in my experience.
- nailer 18y agoEvince will use the anti-aliasing option that Gnome does, including a couple of different flavors of subpixel rendering.
- kirubakaran 18y agoEvince chokes up on large PDFs but xpdf does not. I started using xpdf to read PDFs in OLPC, due to necessity. I liked it so much that I'm using it in my dev laptop as well. It is faster too.
- nailer 18y agoOdd, I've been using Evince all today to read a 772 page PDF of 'Solaris 10: The Complete Reference' (yes, I read textbooks, yes I'm also aware of how piss poor Solaris is). It handles the document fine, including generating thumbnails for all the pages on the fly as I scroll down.
- kirubakaran 18y agoI think the difference is significant when you are RAM poor. It made a huge difference for me on OLPC. May be you have lots of RAM?
- nailer 18y agoEvince has 19.5MB resident when loading the document, which seems reasonable for an average desktop, but I don't know how much RAM OLPC has.
- kirubakaran 18y agoNo bad at all! OLPC RAM = 256 MB.
- briansmith 18y agoI used to feel that way until Acrobat 8 because Acrobat was always so slow. However, versions 8 and 9 open PDF files much faster and are more reliable than previous versions, so I don't see the point of the alternative PDF viewers any more.
- PieSquared 18y agoDoes anyone know of alternative PDF viewers which deal well with large images? Because I know Acrobat, Foxit, and Evince all aren't great and slightly choke up.
- unalone 18y agoThanks a ton for the link! For me, my opinion shifted once I had a Mac, and Preview.app. Before then, I loved Scribd (though Slideshare is just horrible). Now, it seems inefficient by comparison.
- ovi256 18y agoYeah, Preview is awesome. Bu Firefox on Mac OS X by default saves all docs, this sucks.
- comatose_kid 18y agoThis should solve your problem (works for me): http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/ http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/
- ovi256 18y agoThank you! Installed it and it's great.
- bd 18y agoSlideshare presentation is also high-res, just hit "full screen" button in the lower right corner.
- technoguyrob 18y agoSome people read that presentation in NOT full screen? Maybe someone should write a "How People Really Use Slideshare" post...
- Prrometheus 18y agoThanks for providing an iPhone friendly version. My biggest gripe with the iPhone is that the optimal zoom for viewing a web page is slightly larger than the width of the phone. To read a page, I have to constantly swipe left and right a bit. I wish they had a text-only zoom mode that would fit pages to the width of the phone at a comfortable text size.