Re: [tdf-discuss] New "LibreOffice Reader" Eliminates Need for "PDF Reader"

On 2011-06-24, Robert Derman wrote:

> Varun Mittal wrote:
> > I personally feel we have more important set of priorities than diversifying
> > right now into PDF reader. Also no point inventing the wheel again when
> > there are several open source pdf readers available which we can integrate
> > instead of developing one of our own.
>   
> I am wondering do any of the open source pdf readers mentioned above
> work with Windows or are they all Linux, I mostly use Windows.  What I
> meant by HUGE when I referred to Adobe Reader was the more than 6 Gigs
> of hard drive space it takes up!  By contrast all of the LibreOffice
> suite of programs takes up 475 Megs of space.  That means that a mere
> reader takes up more than a dozen times the space of an entire office
> suite.  If that isn't mega-bloat I don't know what is.   It has been a
> long time, but I seem to remember Adobe Reader only taking 12 Megs of
> space at one time.  It used to come included on almost all driver
> disks, now it is just too big for that. 

Adobe Reader is the only bloated PDF reader I've seen so far, when it
comes to runtime. Heavy, slow to launch.


I know Evince runs in Windows, just see its download page

  http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Downloads

Or a direct link to the current version:

  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/evince/2.32/evince-2.32.0-144.1.msi


Evince 2.30.3 in a Windows VM I have around takes 70.3 MiB of disk
space. Now I guess part of that are the dependencies, libraries that are
frequently around in GNU/Linux but must be supplied in windows.

OTOH it's way lighter than Adobe Reader, and it supports more than just
PDF (it also supports PostScript, DeJaVU and LaTeX DeVice Independent;
it's able to handle comics packed in some compression formats ("cbr",
"cbz" and others)).


Coming back on-topic, there was once some talk about adding [to Evince]
support for viewing editable documents. The following reply by a member
of the Evince team, who says why he thinks it shouldn't be done, sounds
interesting in the context of this thread (the one I'm replying to):

  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-April/msg00159.html

There are also some comments on their wiki webpage (see the last
section, /Possible or Planned to Support/):

  http://live.gnome.org/Evince/SupportedDocumentFormats


> > My 2 cents !

My 2 cents, too. So total = 4 ;-)

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