Thanks. Trying to avoid Xfbdev and Xorg on my netbook - looks like i won't need it. I have an old 800 MHz desktop that will likely require one of these, however, to get a better screen resolution.
qpdfview is also very nice.
Just a couple more pdf tips:
- Regarding the Xvesa/Evince maximize tip above, once you've identified the maximum zoom level that will allow a document to maximize without crashing, then on Evince select the gear icon (top right corner) and select 'save current settings as default' (ctrl-t). New documents will still open in a small window but you can simply maximize the window in FLTK (ctrl-alt-m) without having to play around with the zoom levels again. I'm finding Evince very functional now on Xvesa - no additional pdf reader required.
- Firefox's built-in pdf reader actually functions quite well. Me thought it had laggy performance on earlier versions but with tc-6's firefox-official (Firefox 33), pdf viewing performance is very good. So for someone that uses Firefox, no other pdf reader is really required. Locally stored .pdf documents can also easily be opened in Firefox via File > Open File and selecting the .pdf document of your choice.