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In Ubuntu--and most gnome-based linux distributions, for that matter--the default PDF viewer is Evince Document Viewer. However, a much better alternative PDF viewer exists: xpdf
In my experience, xpdf uses only about 5% as much RAM as evince!
Michael Altfield
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