Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:10:36 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD Message-ID: <19970419151036.54945@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <9704171001.AA02531@cssmuc.frt.dec.com>; from garyj@frt.dec.com on Thu, Apr 17, 1997 at 12:01:42PM %2B0200 References: <9704171001.AA02531@cssmuc.frt.dec.com>
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garyj@frt.dec.com:
|grog@lemis.de writes:
|> Jerry Dunham writes:
|> > What version of Acrobat Reader works with FreeBSD and where might I go to
|>
|> 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.
|
|Can pdftops handle encrypted pdf files ? That's the functionality I
|miss the most in xpdf.
pdftops is part of xpdf ("grep pdftops /var/db/pkg/*/*").
In my experience, neither it nor GhostScript handle encrypted PDFs. For
that you have to resort to the Acrobat Reader -- Adobe's plan, of course.
As a side note, if you use GhostScript to convert AcroRead-generated
postscript to your printer's native format for printing, on FreeBSD I've
only had success with a "recent" version of the Aladdin GhostScript 4.03
package on ftp.freebsd.org. I say recent, because a previous Aladdin 4.03
package I downloaded from there a few months ago didn't handle the
PostScript AcroRead generates. Ditto for the other two GhostScript
packages on the FTP site as of a week ago.
Randall Hopper
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