"Joshua b. Jore" <josh at kitten.greentechnologist.org> wrote:
> 
> Also, everything you need will turn into access, excel, powerpoint, word
> and pdf documents. Feh! I run OpenBSD mostly and just to view a PDF I
> have to install this whole giant redhat-linux compatibility package. I
> could just scream when important stuff online goes proprietary.

To my knowledge, PDFs aren't proprietary (except for a few things).  Adobe
just has the best implementation of a viewer at this point.

Lots of PDFs look okay in gv or xpdf.  Yeah, there are some that need
acroread, but I usually have pretty good luck with those others.

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