kubuntu and acroread

[Kenneth Jacker]

  >> Are others successfully using 'acroread'?

  cb> Yes. I downloaded the RPM from Adobe and converted it with alien
  cb> to DEB.

Tried that too, but couldn't get it to even run!

  cb> If I leave AR open for many hours I get 100% system load and I
  cb> don't know why. But that doesn't matter because ...

Don't know about that ...

  >> Using 'xpdf', but want to do much better,

  cb> ... usually I use xpdf. Nevertheless sometimes---facing view,
  cb> searching the PDF, viewing bitmaps---AR does a better job.

I agree.

  -Kenneth