[linux] Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux entirely bogus?

[Yi Qiang]

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RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:
> 
> In my job I'm obliged to read lots of PDFs, and have always found the
> Adobe (Acrobat, mumble, whatever name they pick today) readers to be
> marginal but still the most likely to work reasonably.  I was excited
> that they were coming out, at long last with a 7.0 version more or less
> matching other platforms.  Now that I've used it for a bit I'd have to
> say that it is the most appallingly horrible piece of software I've ever
> seen released by a major software house.
> 
> First of all it uses the everything-in-one-window approach that probably
> made sense for Windows 3.1 applications but is profoundly suboptimal at
> this late date.  I have been known to have a dozen or so PDFs open at
> once, looking at the alongside web pages, word-processing docs, emacs
> windows, etc, grouping all these things by topic rather than by the app
> that handles them.  But Reader 7.0 says they all have to be in one
> window. I guess the way around this is to use the plugin to read these
> docs in my web browser.  Besides being wasteful of screen space, I have
> always found this to be the best way to get my browser to crash, so this
> isn't much of an option.
> 
> But far worse really is the fact that the program is an unbelievable CPU
> and memory hog.  I just started it up, opened one document, and waited a
> few hours.  Now the acroread process appears to be chugging along at 15%
> CPU (which really sucks when running on battery; did I mention my system
> is a laptop?) and is up to about 500M in size (so I killed it before it
> took over completely).  What are these people thinking?
> 
> So is it just me?  Can they really have put out a package this awful? 
> Btw I'm running an IBM ThinkPad X31 with 1G memory, and FC3.  I guess
> I'll go back to 5.10, or look around for other possibilities (I've seen
> claims that KPDF is good, but I'm not a KDE user).
> 
>  - RL "Bob"
> 
You might want to try 'evince'.  It's still in the very early stages of
development but already extremely usable.

Yi
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