Why gpdf default again?
Steve Bergman
steve at rueb.com
Wed Oct 6 14:47:56 UTC 2004
> Before FC2's release, we purposefully changed the default pdf viewer
> from gpdf to ggv because gpdf was horribly unstable. That is still
> the case today, with it failing to open many PDF documents, or opening
> it and soon later locking up completely.
As much as I like Gnome, an application is not automatically the best
just because it has a 'G' in it. From my experience, you really can't
beat xpdf. You can easily print and search. It renders well and the
interface is straighforward, i.e. not confusing like ggv.
-Steve Bergman
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