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On 25 Feb 2009 at 13:55, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

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

Hi Sindi

I was rather put off gs/gv when I used it with win311. Big and slow compared 
with 
Adobe.

> 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.

Compared with a modern acrobat reader, its small and fast. pdf files
are clumsy things. With Windows I use both, Foxit usually, because
its fast, Adobe if I really need those clear images.

> 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).

Useful info, thanks. Still be interested to hear if anyone has managed to use
Foxit with BL. One problem with pdfs is that adobe keeps on expanding the
format, so the readers have to keep up. Foxit seems to be doing this well.

Ian.