Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:14:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions) Cc: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199704251214.OAA00232@CoDe.hu> In-Reply-To: <9704171001.AA02531@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> from "garyj@frt.dec.com" at "Apr 17, 97 12:01:42 pm"
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> > grog@lemis.de writes: > > Jerry Dunham writes: > > > > > > What version of Acrobat Reader works with FreeBSD and where might I go to > > > acquire it? Adobe's site does not seem to contain anything close enough, > > > although the acroread startup script claims one of the options is for > > > Intel/BSDi. > > > > I've never used an Acrobat reader. Instead, I use the program pdftops > > to convert it to PostScript, which it does reasonably well. Now if I > > could only remember where I got the program. > > > > a search on ftpsearch.ntnu.no finds quite a few hits. > > according to a pdftops.txt on one of the hits, it's a port of > part of xpdf. Apparently the pdf-to-ps functionality was split out. > > Can pdftops handle encrypted pdf files ? That's the functionality I > miss the most in xpdf. If I remember well, I've read something in xpdf-0.6(?) about encryption. Something about a US site, from you can load the routine, which isn't built in the package. Maybe, I'm wrong, but you have to read it, too. Gabor
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