program to read electronic books

Joerg Bergmann email at jbergmann.de
Wed Feb 3 19:52:49 UTC 2010


Am 03.02.2010 20:03, schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> Waleed Harbi wrote:
>    
>> He asked for read electronic books and **Adobe Reader still there NOT
>> outdated.
>>      
> Adobe Reader is proprietary and not part of Fedora, so it's certainly the
> worst option.
>
>    
>> If there they **outdated the developers will mention about this in the
>> main website. He will check then he will decided.
>>      
> That's not a reason to post a link to such an outdated summary
Sorry, but there is no true replacement for the Adobe Reader within
open source. Even for open source created products: I have created
an A0 poster background with Scribus, it contains a partial
transparent image on top of a pattern built of a repeating
100mm square image. Evince as well as ghostview were unable for
correct showing the pdf as created by Scribus. Adobe reader did it.
The same pitfall is with OpenJava: For true compatibility, one
has to use Sun Java. Compiling with OpenJava did not solve the problem...

Joerg


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