Gnome PDF viewer? It uses xpdf by default

Jeff Waugh jeff.waugh at canonical.com
Wed Sep 22 17:00:42 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:37 +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> At the end of the day, Gpdf and Kpdf are both front-ends to Xpdf and its
> rasteriser.  At the moment Gpdf is missing functionality like a Print menu
> item, but in the long run, I believe the intention is to ship Gpdf when it
> gets there.

(Note that gpdf in universe, as shipped in GNOME 2.8 has full printing
support, it just doesn't support text searching and Type3 fonts.)

- Jeff

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