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# Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> (7 Aug 2012)
# Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6.
# Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. Masked for
# removal in 30 days.
app-text/epdfview

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Am Dienstag 07 August 2012, 00:28:16 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel:
> # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> (7 Aug 2012)
> # Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with
> cups-1.6. # Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore.
> Masked for # removal in 30 days.
> app-text/epdfview

Improved message:

# Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> (7 Aug 2012)
# Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6.
# Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. Masked for
# removal in 30 days. Unfortunately the best lightweight replacement I can
# recommend is app-text/apvlv, otherwise you can go for app-text/acroread
# (huge, closed source), kde-base/okular (KDE), or app-text/evince (Gnome).
app-text/epdfview

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dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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Hi,

"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> writes:

> # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> (7 Aug 2012)
> # Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6.
> # Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. Masked for
> # removal in 30 days.
> app-text/epdfview

I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
lightweight alternative. How about this time?

Best,
Benda

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On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:00:13 +0900
heroxbd@gentoo.org wrote:

> Hi,
>
> "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> writes:
>
> > # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> (7 Aug 2012)
> > # Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with
> > cups-1.6. # Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this
> > anymore. Masked for # removal in 30 days.
> > app-text/epdfview
>
> I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
> lightweight alternative. How about this time?

I personally migrated to evince a while ago. It is a bit GNOME, TBH but
doesn't really pull in much. And is definitely less buggy.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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heroxbd@gentoo.org wrote:
> I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
> lightweight alternative. How about this time?

Have you gave a try to app-text/mupdf?
It is very lightweight and does not depends on poppler.

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Gentoo Lisp/Scheme contrib.
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:

# Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> (7 Aug 2012)
# Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6.
# Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. Masked for
# removal in 30 days. Unfortunately the best lightweight replacement I can
# recommend is app-text/apvlv, otherwise you can go for app-text/acroread
# (huge, closed source), kde-base/okular (KDE), or app-text/evince (Gnome).
app-text/epdfview


app-text/qpdfview is not bad (though I prefer okular).

Andrey

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On 08/07/2012 06:00 AM, heroxbd@gentoo.org wrote:

Hi,

"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> writes:


# Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> (7 Aug 2012)
# Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6.
# Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. Masked for
# removal in 30 days.
app-text/epdfview


I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
lightweight alternative. How about this time?


app-text/zathura-meta

(zathura supports both poppler and mupdf backends but only poppler
backend is in Portage for now because our mupdf package sucks wrt bugs
407805 and 407807)

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On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 12:00:13PM +0900, heroxbd@gentoo.org wrote

> I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
> lightweight alternative. How about this time?

Try apvlv. Note, you *MUST* first build poppler with the
"xpdf-headers" USE flag. Only then will apvlv build properly. I've
reported this bug, and I assume that the apvlv ebuild will be changed to
look for the app-text/poppler[xpdf-headers] before proceeding further.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

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Walter Dnes wrote:
> > I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
> > lightweight alternative. How about this time?
>
> Try apvlv. Note, you *MUST* first build poppler with the
> "xpdf-headers" USE flag. Only then will apvlv build properly. I've
> reported this bug, and I assume that the apvlv ebuild will be changed to
> look for the app-text/poppler[xpdf-headers]

Bug number? I don't find it.


//Peter

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On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:22:08AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> > > I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
> > > lightweight alternative. How about this time?
> >
> > Try apvlv. Note, you *MUST* first build poppler with the
> > "xpdf-headers" USE flag. Only then will apvlv build properly. I've
> > reported this bug, and I assume that the apvlv ebuild will be changed to
> > look for the app-text/poppler[xpdf-headers]
>
> Bug number? I don't find it.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430306

It's already marked RESOLVED/FIXED, which may be why it doesn't turn
up in your search.

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