program to read electronic books

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Feb 3 20:39:00 UTC 2010


Joerg Bergmann wrote:
> 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.

Have you tried Okular? (That said, if Evince failed on it, Okular probably 
would have, too.)

> The same pitfall is with OpenJava: For true compatibility, one
> has to use Sun Java. Compiling with OpenJava did not solve the problem...

Huh? OpenJDK is practically identical to Sun Java except for the license. 
Except for the browser plugin (which OpenJDK does not include and which is 
provided by the IcedTea project), the code is almost 100% Sun code. 
Compatibility should be a non-issue.

        Kevin Kofler



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