Flash alternatives

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

Man, you have so much going on in your post, I'm not sure what you are
trying to run this on.  I have used Sumatra for PDF reading, from the
Portableapps.com site on a windows box.   the fact that it is open
source should mean that it has a Linux pkg somewhere.  Alas, I just
looked and it is Winders only.  Sorry.
 

Brian Kelsay


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From: Sean Crago
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 9:59 PM



The recent posts asking about Adobe reminded me of an issue I've been
having for some time. The bundled reader in Mac OSX is nigh-infinitely
faster (even on arcane 300mhz G3 processors) than anything I've ever
seen for Windows and Linux. The only thing I've seen that comes close in
terms of performance is the Windows shareware Foxit Reader. Evince et al
have certainly made great strides in terms of speed, and it's certainly
simpler and sucks less than Adobe's Reader, but it's still not nearly as
fast, responsive, and easy to use as Apple's Preview. I still see
"Loading...." far too often on an Athlon X2. Using Evince or the bundled
PDF reader in Maemo, on an N800 with specs that really aren't all that
different from the old Mac I used to have, I'm forced to waste so much
time reading a PDF that I have to go all old-school and run pdf2html and
read it with fbreader.

Is there anything out there that's substantially faster than Evince?

Thanks,
Sean Crago

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