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

[Paul Gress]

Calum Benson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 04:18 -0800, Ivan Wang wrote:
>   
>> I haven't tried evince, but IIRC, it still leverages on the same
>> rendering engine as xpdf.
>>     
>
> Correct, it uses poppler, which is based on the xpdf-3.0 engine.
> http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
>
>   
>>  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.
>>     
>
> If you find any that it can't, please file a bug... poppler is under
> active development.
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
>   
When I clicked on the link provided previously, and opened it with 
acroreader, it was a 3D image that I was able to spin around and zoom.  
Evince isn't capable of this.  What appears to be some good news is 
Adobe is planning to release the 1.7 pdf specification to ISO.

http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2007/01/pdf-specification-released-to-aiimiso.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_reference.pdf

Paul