[desktop-discuss] products i wish were available on Solaris x86

[Bob Doolittle]

sunlist wrote:
> Hello Garrett,
>
> Thank you for the follow up.  I knew about the other PDF readers out 
> in the wild, but I was not familiar with Evince.  I did a brief RTFM 
> on Evince prior to posting the question, and saw that Solaris, along 
> with several other OS's were supported, hence the question.
>

The feature I miss most with Evince (at least the version I
last tried) is the ability to handle PDF forms.  These are
rapidly becoming more and more prevalent, in my experience.
A good source of examples is www.irs.gov :-).  A lot of my
wife's online coursework involves PDF forms also.

Other than that Evince is pretty good, but not up to acroread
standards.  Not yet, anyway.  It's *much* better than the
alternatives available for Solaris x86 (search, decent
text select/copy, etc).

-Bob

> Jerry Kemp
>
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> sunlist wrote:
>>> I really don't understand this comment.  Why would you have to upgrade
>>> your whole desktop to try Evince?  Could you not just download and
>>> compile the application to see if you like it?
>>
>> The problem is dependencies upon newer versions of gnome, I think.  I
>> don't want to have to install a whole new version of gnome.
>>
>>     -- Garrett
>>> Jerry Kemp
>>>
>>>
>>> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>>
>>> Stuff deleted above and below
>>>
>>>   I've not tried evince yet, mostly
>>>> because I don't want to have to upgrade my whole desktop for just this
>>>> one application.
>>>>
>>>>  
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