A poll and a doubt: your preferred pdf reader and sun's documentation

crisostomo_enrico · 03-01-2007, 03:17 AM

Hi.

I'm still exploring my brand new solaris 10 (11/06) on my HP laptop (x86 arch, of course) and I surprisingly found that Sun Solaris' documentation (in pdf format) is _unreadable_ with the programs which I have installed in my system. Neither in the companion DVD I found some useful program! And, equally upsetting, I discovered that Adobe only ships the SPARC version of Adobe Reader for Solaris.

What's your favourite pdf reader on solaris? And how could Sun slip this issue?

reddazz · 03-01-2007, 03:42 AM

What working environment are you using? I use GNOME on Solaris Express and use Evince to read pdf files. It works fine for me and I have used it to read some of the docs from docs.sun.com.

crisostomo_enrico · 03-01-2007, 03:55 AM

Probably your version is... more up-to-date. I'm using a vanilla Solaris 10 (11/06) with JDS and I'm using the xpdf-based pdf reader shipped with it. In the companion DVD I only found xpdf. BTW, not being a gnome user, I didn't know Evince, so I'll check if it's available as soon as I go home.

One thing more: I tried installing SFWkde to check if kpdf worked correctly (that's what I use in my other linux boxes): it seems that SFWkde has got a dependence on SFWgcc2l which is NOT shipped in the companion DVD.

reddazz · 03-01-2007, 04:01 AM

I am not really much of a GNOME user (or a fan of it), but when using Solaris, its my preferred gui working environment. I think your version of Solaris should have Evince (or maybe gpdf). Evince should appear as "Document Viewer" or something similar either under Office or Graphics in your menu.

crisostomo_enrico · 03-01-2007, 04:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddazz

I think your version of Solaris should have Evince (or maybe gpdf).

Thnaks, I'll check for Evince and let you know. gpdf is just the app I was talking about: characters appears so distorted and mixed up which are unreadable. xpdf, which I think it's at the base of gpdf, shows the same problem. I'll check it's version number, too.

Bye,
Enrico.

reddazz · 03-01-2007, 04:09 AM

Mmm, if you have gpdf, then I doubt you have Evince. Evince replaced gpdf in GNOME. Anyway, its still worth checking.

crisostomo_enrico · 03-01-2007, 04:23 AM

Every day it seems that an upgrade to an opensolaris distribution is more likely.

Thanks,
Enrico.

Dox Systems - Brian · 03-01-2007, 07:36 AM

One of the Solaris 10 patches breaks the gpdf fonts... Can't remember which patch offhand, but if you find it and back it out, then gpdf starts working again.

crisostomo_enrico · 03-01-2007, 07:40 AM

Thanks Dox Systems - Brian, I'll look into patches added in 11/06.

Bye,
Enrico.