A Good Reader Indeed

I was looking for an application for the iPhone which could display PDF files on this device, especially those containing images, in a way better than that provided by the built-in support for PDF files on the iPhone. I stumbled upon an application imaginatively named "GoodReader" that does this job very well. It is not free, but at the current price of 99 cents (versus the usual USD 4.99), it's a bargain.

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PDF Manipulation Tools

I wanted to manipulate a few PDF files recently and was on the lookout for suitable tools. More specifically, I wanted to convert a few double-page PDF files (containing two pages of text on a single page) into single-page PDF files. I also wanted to drop some of the pages in order to have the files contain just the text that I was interested in. Fortunately for me, there are several freely-available tools that do the job well.

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Acrobat Reader

If you remove the utterly useless plug-ins from the Acrobat Reader installation folder, it starts up much faster.


(Originally posted on Advogato.)

PDF Viewer Under Linux

Mark: Honeymoon? Congratulations!

As for Evince, my PC only has KDE and therefore I don't think I can use it. In any case, I like the way Adobe Acrobat Reader cleanly renders PDFs and I especially like the navigation and zoom controls. The last I checked, both XPDF and KPDF were rather lacking in this area.

(Originally posted on Advogato.)

Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Linux

Acrobat Reader 7.0 isavailable for Linux, but for some reason the main download page still shows 5.0 as the last supported version for Linux. This version takes up around 93MB (!) of disc space, but feels and shows documents much better than any of the other PDF viewers for Linux that I have had a look at.

(Originally posted on Advogato.)