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== [[Evince PDF]] ===== [[Evince PDF]] ===[[Image:XXstar.png]]  [[Image:35star.png]]  == [[Sumatra PDF]] =='''Review:'''  [[Image:25star.png]]  {{:Evince PDF- review}} === [[PDFlite]] ===[[Image:05star.png]]  PDFlite can be used to read any PDF file. Simple design.  View PDF documents with all common features such as search, print, zoom. Use the PDFlite printer so you can convert any document to PDF file. PUP alert: Malware in installer.  Even if you uncheck the toolbar and other software it still installs PUP in the background!  Avoid unless you want to take the time to install it yourself from the sourcecode they provide. === [[Sumatra PDF]] ===[[Image:20star.png]]  Review: Sumatra PDF contains anti-features.  It enforces [[DRM]] restrictions.  As stated on a Sourceforge review, "''it supports DRM of "protected" PDF files, and the author stubbornly refuses to make it optional. So you can't print PDFs for offline reading, and you can't copy text to the clipboard for pasting into Google translate, saving to your notes, quoting in a paper, etc.''"'''Review:''' Sumatra PDF contains anti-features.  It enforces [[DRM]] restrictions.  As stated on a Sourceforge review, "''it supports DRM of "protected" PDF files, and the author stubbornly refuses to make it optional. So you can't print PDFs for offline reading, and you can't copy text to the clipboard for pasting into Google translate, saving to your notes, quoting in a paper, etc.''" The Sumatra PDF software developers are crybabies.  Read their little rant about [http://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/ripoffs/pdflite.html PDFLite is a SumatraPDF ripoff].  The title should be Sumatra PDF developers do not understand Open Source. === GhostScript === [[Image:40star.png]]  Windows, FreeBSD, Linux Command Line.  Ghostscript is a suite of software.  You can view, convert, and manipulate PDF files.  Ghostscript is an interpreter for PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) files.  Postscript can be picky and inconsistent about the PDF files it will open.   Example: view a PDF on Windows XP gswin32c.exe -dSAFER -dBATCH "C:\Program Files\GPLGS\test3.pdf" The example will open the pdf document in a GUI window for viewing.
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