Evince as a PDF viewer in Ubuntu [en]
Reading the article Meet Fedoratm Core 4 from RedHat Magazine web site, I noticed that Fedora Core 4 distribution is using Evince as their default PDF viewer, replacing ggv and gpdf. It handles PDF and postscripts documents and in future more other types as plug-ins are written.
What abount Ubuntu Linux 5.04 you may ask?
Ubuntu is comming with xpdf as a default PDF viewer. It does everyting I need, but doesn't look very polished on my GNOME desktop. Following the howtos from Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide I installed Adobe Reader with its plug-in for Mozilla Firefox. It works great but is proprietary source.
Reading the above article from RedHat Magazine I want to see if there is around a precompiled version (in repositories) for my Ubuntu distribution and how it works/looks on it.
More details comming soon... (after a full test of Evince) ...
Reading the article Meet Fedoratm Core 4 from RedHat Magazine web site, I noticed that Fedora
What abount Ubuntu Linux 5.04 you may ask?
Ubuntu is comming with xpdf as a default PDF viewer. It does everyting I need, but doesn't look very polished on my GNOME desktop. Following the howtos from Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide I installed Adobe Reader with its plug-in for Mozilla Firefox. It works great but is proprietary source.
Reading the above article from RedHat Magazine I want to see if there is around a precompiled version (in repositories) for my Ubuntu distribution and how it works/looks on it.
More details comming soon... (after a full test of Evince) ...
posted by Silviu Bojica @ 9:44 a.m.
1 Comments:
At 11:47 a.m.,
Niran said…
Evince is available in the universe repository. Once you enable the repository, a "sudo apt-get install evince" will install it for you. Evince is going to be the default PDF reader for GNOME for the next release, so you should never have to do that again.
If you're looking for a Free solution for reading PDFs on the web, look into mozplugger. If you install it and edit the configuration file to use evince instead of xpdf, you won't need Acrobat anymore. It's not as simple, but it gets the job done.
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