From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 17 01:03:09 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA09721 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 01:03:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (ghpc6.ihf.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.90.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA09713 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 01:03:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from thomas@localhost) by ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA24959; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 09:33:28 +0100 From: Thomas Gellekum Message-Id: <199612170833.JAA24959@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Running Linux' Acrobat reader under 215R? To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 09:33:26 +0100 (MET) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, moos@webmore.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199612170746.SAA25768@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Dec 17, 96 06:16:39 pm" Organization: Institut f. Hochfrequenztechnik, RWTH Aachen X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith wrote: > Christoph Kukulies stands accused of saying: > > > If you just want to read .pdf-files, you could use xpdf. > > > > xpdf is known to be inadequate or insufficient in some respects. > > This is mostly in connection with "encrypted" PDF files, and is due > to the usual anal export restrictions. I don't know what Adobe do with > Acrobat; I read PDF files with gv and ghostscript and the RC4 patch. Well, last week I came across a damaged PDF file, which acrobat could fix. gs just barfed on it. tg, who is glad that there are many tools for one task