OT: view pdf file on a unix system

[Dennis Malen]

Thanks!

I will look into your suggestions.

It looks like I may be better off just retaining the pdf's on the server and 
just create a link to the document I need. We are currently doing that now.

Thanks again!

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: OT: view pdf file on a unix system


> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
>
>> AIX localhost 3 5 000187ACD700
>
> Aha.  So Mark was right.
>
> Dennis, man, you *really* need to find the AIX user group people, and get
> in tight with them, wherever they are.
>
> The thing you need to understand about AIX is that it's a *very* thing 
> Unixy
> looking skin over *VM*.  *Every* *single* *thing* you do on an AIX system,
> admin-wise, is sui generis; it's worse than the symlink-farm that is SCO 
> Unix.
>
> That said, you need to look into finding a way to compile xpdf, gv or all
> of KDE (which will include either KPDF or Okular), to get to where you 
> want
> to be.
>
> Based on the information you've provided, it *is* possible to run your
> PDF reader on the box in question, but the Cost Benefit Analysis for you
> is going to be: is it *easier* to just drop the file in a Samba share
> and hand it's (translated) pathname to the client to run the PDF reader
> there?  It might not be.
>
> That assumes, of course, that your client itself is not a *hardware* thin
> client box, which is also unclear.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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