acroread on sparc

[chiguire]

Hello all.

Seeing as there is so much quality Sun hardware and software documentation available in Adobe's PDF format, I've been wondering what tools the gentoo sparc guys use to read these resources.

Of course, xpdf, gpdf and kpdf are are all fine (despite a few niggling problems that crop up now and then, mostly with font rendering), but there are times when you really *do* need the "reference" implementation from Adobe.

The app-text/acroread ebuild is for x86 arch only , despite the fact that there are versions for other platforms at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html, including solaris/sparc.

Ideally, the acroread ebuild should recognise the underlying arch/platform and build the appropriate package accordingly.

Since we live in a *real* world, I would very much like to know how others have solved this conundrum before. Please, any and all suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance.

[Weeve]

I've found xpdf to work 99.9% of the time for me. Both in personal and professional use, it's been able to render the documents correctly and quite they are quite readable. Particuarly in the more recent versions (anything in the last year or so), as long as your font settings in ~/.xpdfrc are set as the the ebuild tells you duing postinstall, you should be fine.

If you do have any documents in particular that are problematic and can share them, I'd be interested to give them a try.