So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/17/2014 11:08 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> On 12/16/2014 01:49 AM, Ralf Corsepius 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.
>
> But if you have already installed K3B then:
>
> Install 1 Package (+13 Dependent packages)
>
> Total download size: 3.2 M
> Installed size 9.5M
>
> Or is there something else you use rather than K3B?  (start yet another
> big discussion!)

I don't use k3b, nor do I know why I should use it rsp. what I should 
use them for - But that's why I said, okular likely is not an issue to 
KDE-users :-)

My standard desktop setup is xfce + very few GUI "Apps" + a lots of 
(commandline) devel tools + lots of other command line tools.

Ralf