From: Andreas Kähäri (akfreeshell.org)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 12:22:08 CDT

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:12:45AM -0600, Peter Valchev wrote:
> > > When you click those the compiled-in PDF viewer is started with the
> > > respective document. This defaults to acroread. I changed this
> > > to xpdf which is more lightweight and available across platforms.
> >
> > What makes you believe that most of the people prefer xpdf to acroread?
> > Acrobat Reader is available across platforms too, and is available on
> > OpenBSD. And my experience is that most people prefer it.
>
> I am stunned to see this - acroread is not even free!! Plus if you show
> me how to get it to work on my sparc64 desktop, then you can begin
> discussing this... it seems you are another one of them "the world is
> i386" people

In that case, I think you should put a bit more thought into his
last paragraph, with which I fully agree:

    If you really need to change the default, change it to gv
    which is much more useful to have since almost everybody
    needs it for the Postscript and installs it anyway.

--
Andreas Kähäri
Essex, England

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