From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 19 12:40:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A653A14D4C for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 12:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA71873; Wed, 19 May 1999 12:40:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:40:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Wayne M Barnes Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 In-Reply-To: <199905191316.NAA26511@klentaq1.emergingtech.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 May 1999, Wayne M Barnes wrote: > Dear FreeBSDers, > > Adobe has its Acrobat 4.0 reader available for LINUX. > > Has anyone tried to install it as a plugin to Netscape > for FreeBSD 3.x ? This is to read .pdf files. What do you gain by having it as a plugin as opposed to an external program? I'm serious, I don't know, but I view pdfs all the time automatically, because netscape knows to use xpdf to display pdfs in a seperate window. As I understand it, Linux and FreeBSD Netscape plugins are not exchangeable, but I don't know why. Perhaps because Netscape FreeBSD is still not ELF. On the other hand, there are people using Linux Netscape on FreeBSD, including plugins. If there isn't an ELF Netscape for FreeBSD soon, I may just go that route, since either running an aout Netscape or a Linux Netscape under a mostly-ELF FreeBSD 3.X will cause the same (or similar) increases in memory usage, due to lack of sharing libc and X libraries. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message