[ale] PDF reader

[mike at trausch.us]

On 03/13/2012 05:42 PM, James Baker wrote:
> This works fine for all the .pdfs I've had to deal with.
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince

A couple of caveats, however.

Evince does NOT support JavaScript.

You can _not_ use it with any PDF that the state of Georgia has created
that requires JavaScript in order to be filled out or properly printed.
 For those, I use Acrobat on a Windows VM.

Also, Evince does not behave properly when filling out PDF forms with
the keyboard.  You have to (annoyingly) click in every field that you
want to type in.  Using <TAB> does not work.  I don't know if they'll
ever fix that.  I haven't been annoyed enough by that to do it myself
yet... but I am probably not far off from that point.

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

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