[desktop-discuss] Re: Fluendo announces multimedia for Linux and Solaris

[W. Wayne Liauh]

> <p>Ok, call me pessimistic, I wouldn't expect
> anything before it really get shipped in SXCR or
> Sol11. 
> <p>An offtopic but long time PITA: pdf support, I
> haven't tried evince, but IIRC, it still leverages on
> the same rendering engine as xpdf. If it is the case,
> how would that help about Adobe's unwillingness to
> release acroread for x86? I would be very suprised if
> evince is able to correctly render every PR pdf files
> handed out by Sun's own PR department.
> 
> <p>[edit] To add a link for benchmarking evince
> http://www.sun.com/nc/05q3/media/kaon/x4100server.pdf
> It will be very impressive if evince handles this.
> 
> Ivan.
> 

You're exactly right.  Evince may be OK in viewing pdf file, it always messed up my printer (driver) every time I tried to print something from Evince.
 
 
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