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FoxIt is more lightweight indeed. It also allows one to copy/paste from PDF files.
Evince is a GUI application able to read PDF files. There is a port in Extras on Maemo 4.x. It is also used on Linux desktop. There are other utilities like Okular and xpdf.
There are many utilities which read a proprietary/rich document format to simple ASCII usable in e.g. xterm. Antiword does is equiv of doctotext on tons of platforms.
Evince is a GUI application able to read PDF files. There is a port in Extras on Maemo 4.x. It is also used on Linux desktop. There are other utilities like Okular and xpdf.
There are many utilities which read a proprietary/rich document format to simple ASCII usable in e.g. xterm. Antiword does is equiv of doctotext on tons of platforms.
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Anyone tried out Calibre on the tablets yet?
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Hey,
Jumping on an old thread. I couldn't make Calibre work on Easy Debian. Now I have been trying the linux version of FoxitReader, but still no luck [http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/des...download.html]
The latest works on my Fedora 12 (x86). Neither deb nor tgz hasn't worked. The executable in tgz doesn't start (get cannot execute), deb install with dpkg -i fails due to (armel) arch not matching. Pehh, any idea this could be kicking up?
None of the pdf viewers I tried can do more than %400 zoom. What a luck ehh, I need more than 400
Foxit has lots of zooming and seems a light viewer. I actually use Foxit (win32 version) on Linux (FC12) via CrossOver and it works charmingly [it really has very useful annotation tools missing in all other linux pdf viewers]
Jumping on an old thread. I couldn't make Calibre work on Easy Debian. Now I have been trying the linux version of FoxitReader, but still no luck [http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/des...download.html]
The latest works on my Fedora 12 (x86). Neither deb nor tgz hasn't worked. The executable in tgz doesn't start (get cannot execute), deb install with dpkg -i fails due to (armel) arch not matching. Pehh, any idea this could be kicking up?
None of the pdf viewers I tried can do more than %400 zoom. What a luck ehh, I need more than 400
Foxit has lots of zooming and seems a light viewer. I actually use Foxit (win32 version) on Linux (FC12) via CrossOver and it works charmingly [it really has very useful annotation tools missing in all other linux pdf viewers]
The biggest reason I personally wish we had it on the NITs is that it also does conversion to text. (Supposedly only the paid-for version does that, but the free version does it if you select some text and then Select All and copy.) I'm not aware of any NIT-based pdf-to-text converter.
On Windows -- the only version I've tried -- it loads much faster than Adobe's PDF reader.