Topic: No Foxit for 64-bit Linux?
Is this really the case or is just hiding from me when I visit Foxit's web?
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/
/Martin
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Re: No Foxit for 64-bit Linux?
If is was really free you could just simply compile it and fix that problem, anyway 32-bit programs work on 64-bit don't they? If you really need a 64-bit pdf viewer, why not consider evince, or xpdf, or several other programs that were already free and made for *nix systems...
Last edited by AwesomeFist (2012-01-23 21:38:29)
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Re: No Foxit for 64-bit Linux?
^ +1. I use ePDFViewer. It is just Evince but without the Gnome bloat.
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Re: No Foxit for 64-bit Linux?
ivanovnegro wrote:
^ +1. I use ePDFViewer. It is just Evince but without the Gnome bloat.
Another vote for epdfview, didn't like the way evince looked after an update, and found epdfview.
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+1 for epdfview. If you like vi-type bindings zathura is also pretty cool.
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+1 and another vote for ePDFViewer. Light and effective, perfection
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Me, too. Been using it for about four, maybe five months without any issues. It's in the repositories, too.
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Re: No Foxit for 64-bit Linux?
1) I tried to install the 32-bit deb but it failed.
2) Sure I make do with what is on offer including MuPDF but font rendering isn't quite as good as the non-open-source alternatives. It is not a catastrophy but sometimes I want to check out what I work on will look like for others whithout having to fire up Mendeley which is really a PDF data base tool and a bit of a heavy thing to start.
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Re: No Foxit for 64-bit Linux?
ivanovnegro wrote:
^ +1. I use ePDFViewer. It is just Evince but without the Gnome bloat.
With ePDFViewer, you mean ePDFView ?
I prefer Evince. I'm missing the page border in ePDFView.
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^ Yes. Interestingly in my Xfce menu, German layout, I have there ePDFViewer as entry.
- dubois
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^ On the American English one, too.
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Re: No Foxit for 64-bit Linux?
^ Makes sense as it is a PDF viewer. 
- ivanovnegro
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Re: No Foxit for 64-bit Linux?
Could be maybe a typo or whatever the guys did.
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^Most likely in a .desktop file.
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I can't get away from evince, because I can't live without inverted colours.
Which I think epdfview doesn't have.
- EnochRoot
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Yeah amazing how much better all the Linux PDF viewers are than Acrobat - the latest windows versions are just so lame, and don't start me on the ribbon toolbar in Office, Outlook etc.