Unexpected features in Acrobat 7 [LWN.net]

Unexpected features in Acrobat 7

Posted Mar 31, 2005 0:35 UTC (Thu) by lakeland (subscriber, #1157)
In reply to: Unexpected features in Acrobat 7 by alangley
Parent article: Unexpected features in Acrobat 7

I find the text rendering in the latest kpdf (0.4) to be equal to that in
acrobat. I understand that rendering has now been shifted to a library so
the current CVS version for gnome should function the same. There are
still missing features in kpdf for which I must load acrobat
(rotation being the most obvious), but they're pretty minor. I load
acroread about once a week, kpdf I never even quit.

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Unexpected features in Acrobat 7

Posted Mar 31, 2005 10:44 UTC (Thu) by nedrichards (subscriber, #23295) [Link]

Yep, it's called Poppler, these sort of cross DE libraries are an unequivocal good.

http://poppler.freedesktop.org/

Unexpected features in Acrobat 7

Posted Mar 31, 2005 15:48 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

But an unfortunate name choice: soon the Futurama makers will sue for some kind of IP infringement... (just kidding - I hope they remember their own "Simpsons" episode that nicely parodied that kind of lawyering)