official pdf reader

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Eric Feliksik">

> What is the default pdf reader? I'm running hoary and I see ubuntu-desktop
> depends on both xpdf and gnome-gv, and gnome-gv does not depend on xpdf.

> 1) Is it correct that gnome-ghostview is the official pdf reader for 
> Ubuntu, and that this is the application of the future?

The default pdf reader is xpdf. ggv is a postscript viewer. In future, we
hope to use gpdf (the official GNOME pdf reader), which is based on xpdf.
That said, upstream is working to integrate ggv, gpdf, eog and other view
oriented apps into a single interface (like Preview on Mac OS X).

> 2) Although it can be just said that a malformed pdf is a malformed pdf,
> would anyone (maybe ggv developers) be interested in a pdf (like the on of
> the url) that could be handled in a better way?

Check it with xpdf and gpdf.

- Jeff

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