gpdf vs evince

[Nicolas Mailhot]

On Mar 1 mars 2005 14:21, Tet a écrit :
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> Rahul Sundaram writes:
>
>>>From my experience using rawhide so far, evince is
>>good enough for regular use.
>
> Yeah, but the few users that have played with it from Rawhide aren't
> enough of a proving ground. It'll only get a decent shakedown with the
> widespread use that will come from being part of Core. I think that's
> absolutely the right thing to do. I'm just uncomfortable with removing
> the older packages until evince has proven itself. Just MHO.
>
> I just hope that when I finally get to try it, it'll be better than the
> slow bloated pig that is ggv (I still use gv because ggv sucks so badly).

evince clearly deprecates gpdf (which was a disaster during its short
life). Anyone that works a lot with pdfs will keep ggv (and probably
acroread) for some time - the codebases are so different they don't share
a lot of bugs

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot