Good pdf viewer with different functionalitites

Hello folks,
I am looking for a good pdf viewer (would be nice if it could support pdf editiing) to view same pdf document at the same time. Document viewer is good enough but when I want to view the same pdf file which is already open with Document viewer, I can not open the file with Document viewer again. Therefore I am looking for a good pdf viewer. I have installed pdfedit, but it seems like over kill for pdf viewing purpose. Which tools do you use?
thanks!

I think the PDF viewer built in to Mendeley supports highlighting, and it has a Linux native client (mendeleydesktop in AUR), though last I tried it, I wasn't very impressed.
Archie_Enthusiasm wrote:
is there any okular for gnome ?
isn't it? Maybe I should be go with evince or epdfview or mupdf.... I think they should be fine for viewing purpose. any other pdf editing tools other than pdfedit but for linux OSs?
What kind of editing do you need to do? There are a lot of apps for combing PDFs, adding pages, cropping them, etc. (PDFsam, PDFshuffler, PDFmod, jPDFtweak, PDFjam, pdftk with various GUIs, etc.) But if you mean actually editing the text (in which case it's far better generally to go back to the source file, if available), then there's not much beyond what has already been mentioned.
There are some webapps though you could use with Linux, like PDFescape, PDFHammer, TouchPDF, etc. I don't have a lot of experience with them.
In general, I think there are more and at least as good PDF tools for Linux than there are for Windows. The thing is, however, that they follow the Unix philosophy and hence focus on doing only one thing (and doing it well), so you need different programs for doing different things. I use mupdf or evince for viewing PDFs, pdflatex for creating PDFs, pdfsam or pdftk for splitting and combining them, jPDFtweak for changing metadata or bookmarks, BRISS for cropping them, ghostscript or calibre for converting them, etc. No one tool does it all, but all together, I'm perfectly content.
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If anyone else is considering this product, just make sure you double check your file location in the iTune settings to make sure each account is pointing to the same location and is organizing the content in the same way or else the individual account libraries will fight against each other to organize all the content where it is configured to put it. Copying the library files isn't enough since some of these settings are in the Windows Registry.
I made this mistake at first. I had all the accounts pointing to the same folder, but one of them (the original) had the "Upgrade to iTunes Media Organization" turned on which categorizes all content into folders based on type such as music, movies, podcasts, etc. Since the others were organizing just based on artist and album this caused the accounts to try to reorganize the files when Folder Watcher would tell it there were new files to manage.
All in all, this solves most of my concerns, but I'm still surprised Apple hasen't added this natively into the iTunes product. Especially when this guy figured out how to write the software to do it and is only charging about 10 bucks to do it. Well I hope this guy makes a million bucks off his little product bacause he surely deserves it!

Cannot create 'download' page for inline PDF viewing with IE

Description of Problem:
Typically, when you want to transfer a file to the client via code (cuz the
file is in a db, for example), you create a page that will change the
response headers and then spit out the file for them to download.
This works, however something with the response headers make it so IE does
not display a PDF if the 'Display PDF in browser' is turned on in the
Acrobat Reader. The page loads, but is blank.
code:
response.setContentType("application/pdf"); //this works well
response.setHeader("Content-disposition","inline; filename=" +"report.pdf" );
response.setContentType("application/pdf;charset=GB2312"); // can't work
response.setHeader("Content-disposition","inline; filename=" +"report.pdf" );
when response header containt national char
must set "useResponseCTForHeaders = true" in sun-web.xml and must use setContentType charset =XXX
Actual Results:
A blank page is shown
Expected Results:
The PDF is shown in the browser using the acrobat reader plugin.
How often does this happen?
Every time

hi kglad
thanks for the help im almost there but still not getting it
so currently my code is set up for an action over a button
using
on (release) {
getURL("www.mysite.com/my.mp3","_blank");
so do I keep the on(release and then add in the on (release)
then add in which part of the filereference class??
import flash.net.FileReference;
var listener:Object = new Object();
listener.onSelect = function(file:FileReference):Void {
trace("onSelect: " + file.name);
listener.onCancel = function(file:FileReference):Void {
trace("onCancel");
listener.onOpen = function(file:FileReference):Void {
trace("onOpen: " + file.name);
listener.onProgress = function(file:FileReference,
bytesLoaded:Number, bytesTotal:Number):Void {
trace("onProgress with bytesLoaded: " + bytesLoaded + "
bytesTotal: " + bytesTotal);
listener.onComplete = function(file:FileReference):Void {
trace("onComplete: " + file.name);
listener.onIOError = function(file:FileReference):Void {
trace("onIOError: " + file.name);
thanks a lot for your help!
var fileRef:FileReference = new FileReference();
fileRef.addListener(listener);
var url:String = "
http://www.macromedia.com/platform/whitepapers/platform_overview.pdf";
if(!fileRef.download(url, "FlashPlatform.pdf")) {
trace("dialog box failed to open.");
}

Save FrameMaker Book as PDF - Files with different page sizes

I've created a book with 2 files - the pages in the first file are 8.5 x 11, the pages in the second file are 8.5 x 14.
How can I save the book as a PDF but keep both page sizes? Right now if I change the page size in the PDF settings dialog, it changes all pages.
Thanks.

Something's not right. Try this route then:
1. Use the Print Book option and have the AdobePDF printer instance selected, turn off the the Print to File, enable the "Generate Acrobat Data" option.
2. Click the PDF Setup button to ensure that the Page size is set to the largest (as in the previous message),
3. Then click the Setup... button to configure the printer for the largest size required.
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This should have all the pages correctly cropped as in the following sample with Letter, Legal and Tabloid all in one book:

Java Cache Viewer shows duplicate URL with different versions

In doing some testing lately we have come across a couple of situations where the same URL is showing in the JAVA cache viewer with different versions to them. In the case of a 1.7 JRE this is not causing any adverse effects however when utilizing a 1.6 JRE we are getting messages about mixed mode for the JAR files.
The jar file is signed as below:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.8.2
Application-Library-Allowable-Codebase: *
Application-Name: named_applet
Built-By: relbuild
Permissions: all-permissions
Created-By: 1.6.0_17-b04 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Caller-Allowable-Codebase: *
Codebase: *
understanding the need to change the wildcard's to domains as we move forward. I am wondering why the jar file is being listed and called twice and why it is being recognized as signed one time and not the next.
The URL is identical in the cache viewer and the java console says it is not found in the cache when it is used the second time, even though previously in the session is finds it with the correct version.
Any advice would be helpful

that i even know, but the problem is that i do not have that version of java re installed, but i found distribution 07 of the same java version, i'll try it out with that.
but when it still doesn't work, then i still would like to find the link where i can download java version 1.4.2_06.

The best of java pdf Viewer ?

What is the best of java pdf Viewer with free license?
Thanks

About the only decent java PDF viewer is Multivalent. It's a bit quirky, but does a fairly good job. Unfortunately, it doesn't currently support printing.
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