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From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:14:41 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com
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