So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/16/2014 08:03 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>> On 12/16/2014 07:30 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Being a happy KDE user, I like okular.
>>>>
>>>> And I use it not just for pdf, but a whole assortment of other document
>>>> formats like dvi, djvu, ps, epub, and so on.
>>>
>>>
>>> Okular is indeed the best pdf reader irrespective of what desktop
>>> environment you use. Evince doesn't have annotation tools as rich as
>>> Okular's.
>>>
>> What disqualifies okular for me is this:
>>
>> # yum install okular
>> ...
>> Install  1 Package (+50 Dependent packages)
>> ...
>> Total download size: 70 M
>> Installed size: 176 M
>> ...
>>
>> This probably doesn't matter much to kde users, but pulling in 50 additional
>> packages and 176 M to me is a serious issue.
>
> Just as point of comparison, Acrobat Pro 11 on OS X is 893MB for the
> actual application (the .app) which contains a bunch of resources;
Well, I could not care less what one evil empire does to the other evil 
empire;)

> # dnf install libreoffice
> Install  85 Packages
> Total download size: 126 M
> Installed size: 393 M
Yes, ... this is an issue, as well.

Ralf