Adobe Reader for 64bit

[jtaber]

thks for the correction - I was thinking besides simply reading, the 
only time I've copied/scaled/trimed pdf contents is with drawings that 
we open up and modify in GIMP. 

Michael Moore wrote:
>> Huh?  I don't know about copying/pasting since pdf is an image (and we
>> modify those in GIMP) but Evince's rendering has never caused any
>> problems for us, even with detailed drawings saved as pdf's
>
> PDF is not an image! PDF can have images, or can be rendered as an
> image, but the PDF format allows for embedding of text as text
> objects, as well as vector and raster graphics.
>
> I haven't used Adobe PDF reader under 64 bit Linux, but I'd recomend
> XPDF, if Evince isn't working for you. XPDF is ugly, but it works very
> well, and lets you select text nicely.
>
> hth,