So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

[Neal Becker]

Joe Wulf wrote:

> evince has worked well for me for a good number of years now, and I use
> cups-pdf for 'printing' pdf's of web pages and such.  No issues here with
> either.
>       From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
>  To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>  Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 9:15 PM
>  Subject: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?
>    
> So here I am setting up my new F21 system and of course pdf processing
> is a must, and on F20, I had many problems with evince. So I went to get
> acrobat, and it seems to be truly gone.
> 
> I see a thread of people running it in Wine.  I shutter at the thought,
> though I suppose if ya got to.
> 
> I have AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm here on my F20 system.  Is this
> the last/latest and it will work on F21?
> 
> What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than evince
> (F20 is 3.10, F21 is 3.14)?

I've been using evince for printing pdfs for years, but f20->f21 update broke 
it.  I use either acroread or lp to print pdfs for now.

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