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Re: Non free software in dired-x.el


From: Charles Sebold
Subject: Re: Non free software in dired-x.el
Date: 27 Dec 2000 15:51:33 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7

On 1 Teveth 5761, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> The variable `dired-guess-shell-alist-default' by default uses the
>> proprietary programs `xv' and `acroread' (on Emacs 20.7.1). I think
>> they should be replaced with free alternatives such as xpdf and
>> perhaps Electric Eyes.
> 
> xv is replaced with xloadimage in the development sources.  As for
> acroread, I don't know how well xpdf can replace it.  Anyone?

Recent versions (0.90 and later) are doing surprisingly well.  Compile
it with Type-1 font support and it looks quite good.  Doesn't support
Javascript (as Acrobat 4 does), but other than that it's nice, and I use
it a lot because it's lighter than acroread on my Intel (and because my
LinuxPPC system doesn't have an acroread available).  The interface is
clunky but it's quite useable.  We actually used it for our tax forms
from the US Internal Revenue Service in 1999, and it was good enough for
them.  *smiles*

Of course, Ghostscript and viewers that use gs are quite good these
days, too, although not quite up to the level of the PDF-specific
viewers.  But gv or GhostView would be an option as well, and of course
the viewer end is GPL'd.
-- 
Charles Sebold
Random Answer to an Emacs Very Frequently Asked Question:
 C-up, S-f1, etc. may require special terminal settings under Emacs on a tty.
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