Marc <marc.glisse@gmail.com> writes:

>Frank Winkler wrote:

>> >Acroread 8.1.1 is also only available on SPARC (and is quite a pita to
>> >install because it requires you to find all kinds of libraries it needs;
>> >some of which are indeed not part of S10 but on Solaris Nevada it should
>> >just run out of the box)
>>
>> I know - I once tried to upgrade v7 to v8 and found exactly that.

>Have you tried using xpdf? It works quite well, usually much faster than
>its derivatives like evince. You could also try jpedal (never tried it
>myself).

How well does xpdf build and run under Solaris 9 or 10 on Sparc and/or on
x86?

I've had some bad experience trying to get xpdf to build let alone run under
Solaris 9 on Sparc. Haven't got an x86-based Solaris system to try it on.

Craig.
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Frank Winkler <frank-usenet@kfw-family.org> writes in comp.sys.sun.admin:
|xpdf looks nice, significantly different from gpdf (which I thought is a
|derivative of xpdf). BUT it still doesn't display most PDFs properly. I
|just get unreadable garbage on the screen. The same file with acroread
|looks fine.

There's a bug in some versions of the Sun Studio 10 compilers which
interacts badly with freetype - and some of the Solaris 10 freetype
patches were compiled with this. If you're using Sun's freetype,
you can install patch 119813-06 or later to get the fixed version.
(See http://ptribble.blogspot.com/2007/08...s-in-gpdf.html
for before-and-after screenshots.)

If you're building your own with Studio 10, install 117846-11 or
upgrade to Studio 11 or 12.

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On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:35:40 +0000, Craig Ian Dewick wrote:

> Marc <marc.glisse@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>Frank Winkler wrote:
>
>>> >Acroread 8.1.1 is also only available on SPARC (and is quite a pita
>>> >to install because it requires you to find all kinds of libraries it
>>> >needs; some of which are indeed not part of S10 but on Solaris
>>> >Nevada it should just run out of the box)
>>>
>>> I know - I once tried to upgrade v7 to v8 and found exactly that.
>
>>Have you tried using xpdf? It works quite well, usually much faster than
>>its derivatives like evince. You could also try jpedal (never tried it
>>myself).
>
> How well does xpdf build and run under Solaris 9 or 10 on Sparc and/or on
> x86?
>

Just download from the likes of http://www.blastwave.org


> I've had some bad experience trying to get xpdf to build let alone run
> under Solaris 9 on Sparc. Haven't got an x86-based Solaris system to try
> it on.
>
> Craig.
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jdh13 <jdh13@free.fr> writes:

>before using evince, i was giving a try to acroread 5 with lxrun, and
>never succeed in printing.
>I don't think Sun is interested in having people running solaris for
>sunrays server, as the desktop is very a crap (CDE or JDS). When you
>look at the sunrays list, the majority of people talk about linux (or
>windows). Running solaris (like me) seems to be a "no-future" action...

I don't think we agree with that because a lot of work is put into it;
perhaps you are just looking at S10 and it's aging GNOME/JDS; the future
of Solaris has a much newer version of GNOME and is by and large not
much different from Linux in desktop capabilities.

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Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> jdh13 <jdh13@free.fr> writes:
>
>
>>before using evince, i was giving a try to acroread 5 with lxrun, and
>>never succeed in printing.
>>I don't think Sun is interested in having people running solaris for
>>sunrays server, as the desktop is very a crap (CDE or JDS). When you
>>look at the sunrays list, the majority of people talk about linux (or
>>windows). Running solaris (like me) seems to be a "no-future" action...
>
>
> I don't think we agree with that because a lot of work is put into it;
> perhaps you are just looking at S10 and it's aging GNOME/JDS; the future
> of Solaris has a much newer version of GNOME and is by and large not
> much different from Linux in desktop capabilities.
>
> Casper

Casper, this newer version of GNOME for Solaris 10 of which you speak,
is this for x86, SPARC, or both? I ask the question because the Project
Looking Glass 3-D desktop, for example, is currently only available for
Linux and Solaris x86 platforms (Thanx to Sun MS for blowing off your
loyal SPARC users, but that's a topic for another thread).

Max.