Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 09:33:26 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, moos@webmore.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running Linux' Acrobat reader under 215R? Message-ID: <199612170833.JAA24959@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199612170746.SAA25768@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Dec 17, 96 06:16:39 pm"
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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
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