xpdf for 20.10?

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 7 Jul 2021 04:10:08 +0800 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 7/7/21 4:01 am, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 02:48:17PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> >> At Tue, 06 Jul 2021 20:00:25 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not
> >> for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> hi,
> >>> Am Dienstag, den 06.07.2021, 13:48 -0400 schrieb Robert Heller:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> How does one view a PDF file in 20.10?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> try evince (this is the pre-installed document viewer typically)...
> >>
> >> evince has a horrible UI...  I seriously hate it when programs decide that
> >> they are NOT going to let me use *MY* window manager.  It is obnoxious and
> >> patronizing.  Why do people write programs that way?  There is NEVER a good
> >> reason to do that.
> >>
> > There's also atril which I think is the default xubuntu PDF viewer
> > now, instead of evince.
> > 
> 
> I believe that atril is a MATE application - it is installed by default 
> in UbuntuMATE.

Yeah, it *looks* like evince, except it does not try to be its own window 
manager.  It also works about as poorly.  I am dealing with a giant, very high 
res PDF and xpdf actually allows me to zoom way in with zoom factors going up 
to 1600%, as compared to the max of 125% with evince and atril.

> 
> See https://mate-desktop.org/ -> applications (you need to scroll down 
> the homepage).
> 

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