bnvidia, gl, & open source (was mini-rant)

[Kurt Granroth]

Josh Coffman wrote:
> --- Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 14:20 -0700, Dan Lund wrote:
>>> As far as adobe acrobat, there is an acrobat reader by Adobe for
>>> Linux.  Of course there is also xpdf.
>> ----
>> default on FC-4 and I presume FC-5 is evince
> 
> Eviince is the default in FC5 but firefox didn't seem
> to like launching it. I put acro-reader on so I could
> vie my bank statements.
> 
> I'll try xpdf.

My favorite PDF viewer on all platforms is KPDF.  It does a great job
with the PDF basics plus has a sweet GUI.

KPDF has only two drawbacks, in my opinion:
1. It doesn't handle editable forms (like IRS tax forms)
2. The "Watch File" feature has never worked for me

That former reason is why you pretty much have to use Acrobat Reader for
 editable forms.  For everything else, KPDF is much sweeter.

Kurt