PDF programmes

KPDF being merged into HEAD has been the talk of the IRC channels for a while, everyone is impressed. Here's the snazzy presenter mode:

Someone must have been watching closely because today has popped up copies of an Acrobat Reader 7 beta for Unix, available to those hand picked by Adobe (or who know where to get it). It has the rendering speed advantage over kpdf but doesn't have the looks: to the surprise of most it uses GTK 2 and measures in at a whopping 110MB (it's not statically linked either and it is stripped).