The road to dropping xdvik

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 23:08 +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> 2010/1/27 Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com>:
> > I suspect a lot of our users will be similarly annoyed.  This is one of
> > those kinds of tools that "just works" and so people stick with it.
> 
> Well.. perhaps. OTOH people seem to have happily migrated from xpdf to
> evince over time (or at least that's my perception).

What do you mean?

# yum -y install xpdf
(clip)
---> Package xpdf.x86_64 1:3.02-15.fc12 set to be updated

xpdf is still there, so actually nothing brutal has yet happened in the
case of xpdf. When xpdf *is* removed I'd expect cries of rage.

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For PDFs I personally have used evince ever since it was introduced in
Fedora. In the case of PDFs the wait for a page to load is just a second
or so.

For PS (or EPS!) files, on the other hand, evince can be *really* slow
in my experience. Often I just convert the files to PDF first with
ps2pdf or epstopdf - if a file doesn't seem to open launching another
terminal, converting the file to PDF and launching another evince
process to view it is quicker to display than the original process that
had been running all the time in the background.
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org