On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:45:25PM -0800, Anna Edwards wrote: First off, top posting to technical email list is bad. Please stop. See for example: http://catb.org/~esr//jargon/html/T/top-post.html > hmm... *thinks for 2 seconds* have you heard of adobe reader? > free (in a sence), avalable via the add remote programs > mechanism, and version 8 plays sounds lol not sure v8 is in > repos but if not, just google adobe reader 8 click the first > link, choose dif os choose debian linux (se, adobes website > chooses the option of rpm automatically and that'll screw > up your system) run it, if it has license agreement in the dumb > terminal, press tab+enter and it will shut up and just show > progress in the window Adobe reader is bloated and slow. The free software alternatives are smaller, faster, and generally work better. Most important of all, it is a pain to get acroread that saves your place in a file when you close it, while kpdf in particular, offers a very nice bookmarking feature. Jim > Jim Crumley wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:53:45PM -0600, Donovan wrote: > >> I've tried digging around a bit and can't seem to find a good ebook reader > >> with PDF support for Linux. I'm just looking for something that might > >> handle bookmarking so I can keep my place when I close my document. Any > >> other booky features would just be a bonus (as would a Debian/Ubuntu repo > >> containing said ebook reader). > > Both evince and kpdf (which are in main on Debian) automatically > > save your spot when you close the pdfs. See > > http://polishlinux.org/apps/pdf-viewers-for-linux-compared/ > > for a decent review of the options. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |