Re:How people really use the iPhone
by alextp on Monday November 10, 2008 @08:13AM
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xpdf has better anti-aliasing in my computers, usually. Pdfs from jstor for example look awful under evince and ok on xpdf.
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Evince will use the anti-aliasing option that Gnome does, including a couple of different flavors of subpixel rendering.
Yes, and it works marvellously for most fonts, but I think it doesn't do anti aliasing for bitmapped fonts, and xpdf does. I could send you a screenshot of how badly jstor pdfs get in my laptop, if you're interested.
No need, consider me educated.
I haven't heard of xpdf or evince before and have been using foxit, how does this compare?
While I haven't used them in direct comparison, it is worth noting that Evince is shipped with GNOME in nearly all GNOME-based Linux distributions, and xpdf has the added bonus of not relying on a specific toolkit. Mind, you can certainly use Evince outside of GNOME, but people have their own reasons for avoiding such things.
The bottom line is that both work acceptably well, and do so much better than Adobe's own offerings in my experience.