official pdf reader

[Brian Barr]

On 
ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:

> > 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).
> > 
> 
> Well this sounds very interesting.  I was hoping for gpdf to be the
> default pdf reader, because xpdf just looks bad against the nice gnome
> 2.8.

Sounds interesting, but in my experience, gpdf has serious performance issues when compared with xpdf.  While it may be based on the same code, gpdf is slower and doesn't render PDFs as well as xpdf (or even gv).