So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

Roger Wells ROGER.K.WELLS at leidos.com
Wed Dec 17 16:03:34 UTC 2014


On 12/17/2014 08:47 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
>> MasterPdfEditor is horribly slow to display my pdfs, which contain 
>> matplotlib
>> pdfs with thousands of data points.  evince is very fast at this.
>
>
> evince chokes on PDF files with heavy bitmap-image content, like dense 
> city GIS maps. (Probably due to poorly-implemented scaling internally; 
> gtk routines don't do scaling well.) okular handles them fine.
>
> You have to pick-and-choose linux PDF readers depending on the 
> application, unfortunately.
>
> - Mike

How about the addition of digital signatures?
Is Adobe the only option here?

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