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Re: [Groff] Displaying PDF slides (was: Colors, PowerPoint and PDFs)
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey |
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Re: [Groff] Displaying PDF slides (was: Colors, PowerPoint and PDFs) |
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Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:57:28 +0300 |
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On Friday, 21 October 2005 at 10:57:26 -0500, Michael Parson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:15:57AM +0300, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> The real reason for this reply is: how do you *display* PDF slide
>> sets? I currently use acroread, which renders well, but it's pretty
>> slow (it can take a second to change to a complicated page, even with
>> a 3 GHz CPU). Also, using a laptop it's far too easy to hit "Home" or
>> "End" instead of "PageUp" or "PageDn", with embarrassing results.
>> I've tried things like xpdf, but the rendering doesn't stand up.
>
> Under what OS?
I tend to use FreeBSD, though I also use Linux. But that's much of a
muchness anyway.
> For Win32, I've found that Foxit PDF Reader is much, much faster
> than Adobe's own acroread:
>
> http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
Thanks for the info. What's the rendering like?
Greg
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