Kubuntu Amd64 again - change of mind

[Knapp]

I was reading that Evince was the best. What are your thoughts?
Douglas

On 7/25/07, manchicken <manchicken at notsosoft.net> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 25 July 2007 07:24:34 FX Fraipont wrote:
> > One last post on the subject of amd64 and Kubuntu (I was the imprudent
> > poster who almost started a civil war yesterday by daring to suggest
> > that acroread, which doesn't do 64bits, is indispensable for some).
> >
> > 1. I've been running Kubuntu 64 for about ayear and there are of course
> > no stability issues with it. I never said anything like  that.
> >
> > 2. There is absolutely no problem with Automatix2 and it greatly
> > simplifies the installation of firefox32 and the flash / java plugin
> >
> > 3. Acroread is a different bird altogether, and Automatix2 never managed
> > to make it work for me. However, despite the fact that I said a couple
> > of days ago that it was indispensable because the alternatives  did not
> > allow you to print or search, a poster (I forgot who) said taht kpdf
> > allowed you to search and print.
> >
> > And he was right! and saved me from reinstalling 32, since it was my
> > main problem (I do tarnslation work, when you look up terminology on
> > google, you often come across  pdf's that you need to search). I had to
> > save the pdf, and then launch kpdf. Not entirely practical. I never
> > realized you could call kpdf from firefox directly (saves me one
> > operation) and that Kpdf allowed you to search and save (I guess I was
> > talking about ghostscript).
> >
> > fx
>
> Well I'm glad that you got that sorted out.  I find that kpdf is quicker
> and
> more practical for most uses.  The only functionality I have found that
> acroread has that kpdf doesn't is that acroread let's you edit forms and
> keep "protected" documents.  Other than that I've never really seen a
> benefit... unless you like their little adware Yahoo Toolbar advert.  Then
> I
> suppose that's two features.
>
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