Comments on: acroread, your new multimedia application

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:51:19 +0000

“unfortunately, acrobat reader is the only application on linux that can display complex pages decently without jagged edges or part of the text gone…” it is absolutly true , ‘cos i have the same problem under Linux redhat

By: Stoffe

Stoffe — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:51:34 +0000

Heh, I just had the same thing with file-roller in Ubuntu Edgy of all applications (remembered this post and went back to it to see what that lsof command was). Really weird, why would an archive-opening application block sound…?

By: Tuomas Kuosmanen

Tuomas Kuosmanen — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:54:53 +0000

Yeah. That’s why I use it too.

It’s funny though - yesterday I had the same problem with sound, and now Evince was blocking it.. D’oh. I guess that makes them even

Maybe this has something to do with the gtk event sounds? I had them turned off though, which is strange..

By: sven

sven — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:58:04 +0000

unfortunately, acrobat reader is the only application on linux that can display complex pages decently without jagged edges or part of the text gone…

By: Tuomas Kuosmanen

Tuomas Kuosmanen — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:59:53 +0000

There are things like “[x] Allow speculative downloading in the background” - I don’t have any clue as what those do… The Preview.app in Mac OS X does not have this kind of settings mess and yet it is very useful and handy.
The reason I use acroread is that it renders some things a lot nicer than Evince, even though I would love the simplicity of the Gnome viewer. And on Ubuntu, “poppler” library (that renders the pdf’s for Evince) is not compiled with Cairo, so vector art is not antialiased even. It makes viewing things like vector maps etc pretty much unreadable.

By: eleusis

eleusis — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:58:40 +0000

I don’t see what’s exactly wrong about the 21 pages of settings.. they seem fairly well laid out and it’s more or less clear what they do. IMO, it’s better than having few options accessible to the user, with the rest hidden away in a config file or gconf, or even only accessible via command line options…

By: Prashanth Mohan

Prashanth Mohan — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:47:08 +0000

Adobe Acrobat Reader has a `Read Out Loud’ feature. Maybe that was blocking the audio device?

Either way evince beats Adobe Reader hand down in most cases.

By: Meneer R

Meneer R — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:43:56 +0000

WOW. Are people even using acroread? I wondered what the hell it was doing in the ubuntu-repos, when the default installed pdf-reader words fine.

At least I now have an explanation why it launches so slowly on Windows. I used to think they were just delaying the boot time to impress the end-user wonder what a marvelous and complicated piece of technology it must require to view a PDF file.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:53:24 +0000

I hope they upgrade to using gstreamer soon.

By: thebluesgnr

thebluesgnr — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:45:08 +0000

Compare it to evince which has zero preferences tabs.

God I love GNOME so much.