So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Chris Murphy sent:
> Android 7.61MB. This just displays them, there's no creation or
> modification as far as I'm aware. So it's possible most of the code
> complexity is in the creation and modification.
> 
> The point is that as any software becomes more capable it necessarily
> gets bigger. It gets more capable because more people are using,
> supporting, and coding it. And users are continuously asking for new
> features and that means it's going to get bigger.
> 
> So I'm suggesting any successful PDF creator/modifier is going to be a
> big binary. 

But when one application gets as big as an entire operating system, or
even bigger?!  I can't believe that a well designed application should
need to be that bloated.  And it's only a document handler, not a bloody
virtual reality flight simulator.

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