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Sindi Keesan wrote:


> I notice that Foxit,  www.foxitsoftware.com now do a .PDF viewer for "Desktop 
> Linux"
> and its free. Ive been using their Windows viewer in preference to Adobes one 
> for
> some time now and its much faster. The graphics are not so well defined but 
> the extra
> speed is very welcome. I believe theres an addon to improve the graphics, 
> probably not
> for Linux though.
>
> Has anyone tried this with BL ? Id guess it would need the same sort of 
> additional libs
> as Opera.
>
> Ian.

I just started using it in Windows instead of ghostscript/ghostview, which 
are enormous (Windows gs comes with Asian fonts and lots of documentation).

It was compiled with gcc 4.3.0 (is this important?).  Which glibc does it 
want?   How 'incredibly small' is Foxit?  It needs 15MB memory.
It took a while to load in Windows at 1GHz.


I view pdf and ps files with svp, a very small fast gs-based frontend 
requiring svgalib.  26K for glibc2.2.5.  No X required, low RAM.
No features either (choose mono or 8-bit color, resolution).

svp used 3MB to view my largest pdf file.

xpdf 3 about 13MB including X.  It zooms, etc.  Works with glibc 2.2.5 
(older versions work with libc5, or you can convert the pdf to a ppm with 
pdftoppm and view with xli).