Hi there! On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:12:55 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> But anyway, and knowing this is not an Ubuntu list... Does anybody >> know why on Earth is Acroread popular? Why isn't a PDF regularly >> handled in a saner way with Evince (or kde-based lookalike) in some >> distributions? > > Zillions of websites promote acroread via links and thumbnails. I've yet > failed to find a site with a pdf and that 'download envince|kpdf|okular > for free' button. Don't forget that many people use an inferior OS just > out of convenience/marketing/whatever.
FYI, the FSFE has started such initiative: http://wiki.fsfe.org/Free-PDF-Readers-Campaign The discussion started in July 2008 on the FSFE discussion mailing list, but unfortunately the archive is available to subscribers only: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion Recently, a dedicated mailing list was setup: http://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/pdfreaders Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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