Re: [PLUG] DSL saga webpage

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

Bill Jonas:

> 1.) There are extra steps involved.  At a minimum, I have to tell
> Mozilla that it's okay to open the file with /usr/bin/xpdf.  At a
> maximum, it might mean saving it to a file, starting X, launching
> applications, opening the file, etc (since I'm not aware of any console
> PDF viewers). 


There's always downloading and installing Plugger to avoid having to 
tell Mozilla/Netscape or Opera to open the pdf with xpdf.  Many of the 
other solutions like Kghostview or even GSview could be selected to open 
pdf's instead.

I tend to agree with Doug on this though, even text can be misconstrued 
in some circumstances.  PDFs offer a common easy to reproduce view that 
most Linux users already have at least one way to view, or can easily 
find and compile or download one.





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