Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 19:09:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham <dunham@rider.fc.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: jdunham@awesome-f0.us.dell.com (Jerry Dunham) Subject: Acrobat Reader reply file Message-ID: <199705050009.TAA00539@rider.fc.net>
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If you are interested in running Acrobat Reader on FreeBSD, here's a
reply file of most of the responses I received when I posed the question
to the list. Headers and some blank lines have been edited to reduce
size.
It looks like I'm out of luck for the moment, as I'm running 2.1.5, and
the consensus is that something more modern is needed. I may have to
learn how to upgrade this thing when I return from vacation. (I just
know I'll find a way to screw THAT up.)
The other possibility seems to be pdftops or xpdf, which I've not yet
explored. See discussion near the bottom of this file.
--Jerry
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From: Jerry Dunham <dunham@rider.fc.net>
Subject: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
To: questions@FreeBSD.org
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 07:31:15 -0500 (CDT)
Organization: Not this week
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.
Thanks for any help!
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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
To: jdunham@fc.net
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 08:53:49 -0500 (EST)
> 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.
>
The Linux version appears to work fine on recent versions of FreeBSD.
John
To: jdunham@fc.net (Jerry Dunham)
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
From: Jay Sachs <sachs@interactive.net>
Date: 07 Apr 1997 09:58:12 -0400
Jerry Dunham <dunham@rider.fc.net> 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.
You need to be running 2.2, since it uses the Linux version. I
haven't gotten around to upgrading to 2.2 yet, but I've found xpdf to
be quite acceptable for viewing pdf files.
-Jay
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 10:29:53 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc: jdunham@fc.net, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
John S. Dyson:
|jdunham@fc.net:
|> 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.
|>
|The Linux version appears to work fine on recent versions of FreeBSD.
That I've tried, the Linux version runs OK except that it doesn't generate
valid postscript. This is unfortunate when dealing with encrypted PDFs as
xpdf and ghostscript don't handle encrypted PDFs.
Anyone got a little-known FreeBSD solution for printing encrypted PDFs?
Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 13:07:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@vt.edu>
To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Randall Hopper wrote:
=)John S. Dyson:
=)That I've tried, the Linux version runs OK except that it doesn't generate
=)valid postscript. This is unfortunate when dealing with encrypted PDFs as
=)xpdf and ghostscript don't handle encrypted PDFs.
=)
=)Anyone got a little-known FreeBSD solution for printing encrypted PDFs?
=)
I think one of the reasons to encypt the PDFs is to prevent people from
printing them. This is one reason why Adobe is reluctant to give out the
encryption scheme (IMHO).
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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 13:13:49 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@vt.edu>
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
Jason Andresen:
|=)John S. Dyson:
|=)That I've tried, the Linux version runs OK except that it doesn't generate
|=)valid postscript. This is unfortunate when dealing with encrypted PDFs as
|=)xpdf and ghostscript don't handle encrypted PDFs.
|=)
|=)Anyone got a little-known FreeBSD solution for printing encrypted PDFs?
|=)
|I think one of the reasons to encypt the PDFs is to prevent people from
|printing them. This is one reason why Adobe is reluctant to give out the
|encryption scheme (IMHO).
Well, you can print them just fine using the Adobe Acrobat Reader on
Solaris, which is what I always end up doing -- waiting until the next work
day and printing to PostScript for hardcopy or for keeping around on my
FreeBSD (home) box for viewing.
Randall Hopper
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 15:22:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Larry Marso <lsmarso@panix.com>
To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
cc: jdunham@fc.net, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
Correct. It does *not* work on 2.1.7 / earlier. Only 2.2 / after
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> The Linux version appears to work fine on recent versions of FreeBSD.
>
> John
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 16:43:39 -0500
From: Dan Riley <daniel@vailsys.com>
Organization: Vail Systems, Inc.
To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
CC: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>, jdunham@fc.net,
questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
Randall Hopper wrote:
>
> John S. Dyson:
> |jdunham@fc.net:
> |> 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.
> |>
> |The Linux version appears to work fine on recent versions of FreeBSD.
>
> That I've tried, the Linux version runs OK except that it doesn't generate
> valid postscript. This is unfortunate when dealing with encrypted PDFs as
> xpdf and ghostscript don't handle encrypted PDFs.
>
> Anyone got a little-known FreeBSD solution for printing encrypted PDFs?
What Linux version runs on 2.2.1?
The version that I picked up at,
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/3.x/acroread_linux_30.tar.gz
installs but will not run.
/usr/local/Acrobat3/bin > ./acroread
The OS named FreeBSD version 2.2.1-RELEASE is currently not installed.
Try running on a installed platform and connecting to your display.
Installed platform(s) include the following:
Intel/Linux
Thanks for the help,
Dan
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 22:53:42 +0000
From: Vladimir Kushnir <kushn@olinet.isf.kiev.ua>
To: Dan Riley <daniel@vailsys.com>
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
Dan Riley wrote:
>
> What Linux version runs on 2.2.1?
>
> The version that I picked up at,
> ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/3.x/acroread_linux_30.tar.gz
> installs but will not run.
>
> /usr/local/Acrobat3/bin > ./acroread
> The OS named FreeBSD version 2.2.1-RELEASE is currently not installed.
> Try running on a installed platform and connecting to your display.
> Installed platform(s) include the following:
> Intel/Linux
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Dan
You can simply change "Linux)" to "FreeBSD)" in "setup the configuration
from uname" procedure. Everything else should be OK (provided you've
installed Linux libraries, of course)
Vladimir
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 20:34:35 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Dan Riley <daniel@vailsys.com>
Cc: jdunham@fc.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
Dan Riley:
|Randall Hopper wrote:
|> |jdunham@fc.net:
|> |> 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.
|>
|> That I've tried, the Linux version runs OK except that it doesn't generate
|> valid postscript. This is unfortunate when dealing with encrypted PDFs as
|> xpdf and ghostscript don't handle encrypted PDFs.
|
|What Linux version runs on 2.2.1?
|
|The version that I picked up at,
|ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/3.x/acroread_linux_30.tar.gz
|installs but will not run.
|
|/usr/local/Acrobat3/bin > ./acroread
|The OS named FreeBSD version 2.2.1-RELEASE is currently not installed.
|Try running on a installed platform and connecting to your display.
|Installed platform(s) include the following:
| Intel/Linux
I have the 3.0 Linux AcroRead installed and had to make these few changes
to acroread.sh. Works ok on 2.2-GAMMA, except for (as I mentioned)
generating PostScript:
--- ORIG/acroread.sh Tue Apr 8 20:32:22 1997
+++ acroread.sh Thu Jan 30 16:36:08 1997
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
ver=3.0
-install_dir=REPLACE_ME
+# RHH - Changed this
+#install_dir=REPLACE_ME
+install_dir=/opt/pkg/AcroRead-3.0/Reader
#
# Prepend a colon separated environment variable
@@ -143,6 +145,9 @@
else
os_release=`uname -r`
fi
+
+# RHH - Added this
+os_name=Linux
case "$os_name" in
SunOS)
Randall
From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
To: lsmarso@panix.com (Larry Marso)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 02:01:09 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, jdunham@fc.net, questions@freebsd.org
Larry Marso wrote:
> Correct. It does *not* work on 2.1.7 / earlier. Only 2.2 / after
I belive this is because it is an ELF binary..????
> On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:
> > > 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.
> > The Linux version appears to work fine on recent versions of FreeBSD.
> > John
Gary
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 17:25:51 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD -- SOLVED
Gary Clark II:
|Randall Hopper wrote:
|> That I've tried, the Linux version runs OK except that it doesn't generate
|> valid postscript. This is unfortunate when dealing with encrypted PDFs as
|> xpdf and ghostscript don't handle encrypted PDFs.
|>
|> Anyone got a little-known FreeBSD solution for printing encrypted PDFs?
|
|Huh?
|I'm running the linux acroread here and piping into ghostscript with no
|problems.
|What kind of errors do you get?
I've attached one error trace from loading AcroRead PostScript files into
GhostScript 4.0.3 below.
After further investigation, I notice that the PostScript that my Solaris
AcroRead and the Linux AcroRead kick out are the same except for a few
comments. I incorrectly assumed the PostScript the Linux version was
generating wasn't valid because GhostScript on my FreeBSD box couldn't read
it but the GhostScript on my work box (and the LJ4 at work) could. Bit of
a logic leap there.
Given this realization, I compared versions. I'm running Aladdin
GhostScript 2.6.1 (5/28/93) at work. Strange that it handles the
PostScript that AcroRead kicks out but version 4.03 doesn't. Anyway, that
seems to be the ticket.
Randall Hopper
Unrecoverable error: invalidexit in .stop
Operand stack:
true --nostringval-- false
Unexpected interpreter error -8.
Error object: (f80)op(132:.stop)0x346b8
Operand stack at 0xe9f3c:
0xf8094: 0x01 bool --F------ 0x0004 0x00000000 = false
0xf809c: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0x000f 0x001866bc
0xf80a4: 0x01 bool --F------ 0x0000 0x00000001 = true
Execution stack at 0xe903c:
0xf99fc: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x0000 0x0002ac80 = %interp_exit
0xf9a04: 0x12 str --F-rxe-- 0x0000 0x00000000 =
0xf9a0c: 0x03 file --L-rxe-- 0x0001 0x00102040
0xf9a14: 0x0e null --F---e-- 0x0000 0x000365b8
0xf9a1c: 0x03 file --S-rxe-- 0x0001 0x000f30c4
0xf9a24: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x0000 0x00036578 = %runexec_finish
0xf9a2c: 0x03 file --S-rxe-- 0x0001 0x000f30c4
0xf9a34: 0x05 mpry --L-rxe-- 0x0003 0x0010302e
0xf9a3c: 0x06 spry --L-rxe-- 0x0001 0x001865c2
0xf9a44: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x000c 0x0014ddb0
0xf9a4c: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0039 0x00133b9e
Dictionary stack at 0xe90f4:
0xfa22c: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x0000 0x000fb034
0xfa234: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x0000 0x0014c548
0xfa23c: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0x0000 0x00100088
0xfa244: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0x0003 0x00102824
0xfa24c: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0x000f 0x001022f4
From: grog@lemis.de
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
To: jdunham@fc.net
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 16:02:14 +0200 (CEST)
Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany
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.
Greg
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:54:33 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Christoph Haas <haas@willi.lion.de>
To: grog@lemis.de
Cc: jdunham@fc.net, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997 grog@lemis.de wrote:
> 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.
You can use Ghostscript 4.03 (the Alladdin version), too. It now handles
PDF as well as PS.
Christoph
From: garyj@frt.dec.com
In-Reply-To: Message from grog@lemis.de of Wed, 16 Apr 97 16:02:14 +0200.
Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 97 12:01:42 +0200
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.
---
Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com
(home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de
(play) gj@freebsd.org
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:10:36 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
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
From: service@Adobe.COM (Adobe Support)
Date: 24 Apr 97 14:40:04
To: jdunham@fc.net
Subject: Question - Adobe Products - Acrobat Reader
Hello Jerry,
Thank you for contacting Adobe Customer Support via the Adobe Web site. We apologize for the delay in responding to your message.
Although there is no information currently available as to when or whether Acrobat will support BSD in the future, we are constantly monitoring the trend in the marketplace to better serve the changing needs of our customers. You are important to us and we will take your request into consideration when planning future releases.
I hope this answers your question. For further questions, don't forget to check the Customer Services and the Technical Support pages for the most up-to-date Customer Support information.
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--- On 04/07/97 05:50:29 A, you wrote ---
I'm having difficulty finding the version of Acrobat Reader that I need. I
saw nothing on your web site that looked like BSD, so I downloaded the SunOS
version to poke around. The acroread script mentions a version for Intel/BSDi,
which I can run. How to I go about finding a copy of this?
Thanks for your assistance.
--- original message ends ---
From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:14:41 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com
>
> 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
From: Sascha Blank <blank@sliphost37.uni-trier.de>
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat for FreeBSD?
To: Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com (Harlan Stenn)
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 11:01:14 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Reply-To: blank@fox.uni-trier.de (Sascha Blank)
Hello Harlan,
Harlan Stenn has written recently:
> Does anybody know if/how I can I get Adobe Acrobat working for FreeBSD?
Yes, it is possible to use the Adobe Acrobat Reader for Linux (I guess
this is the program you meant) in conjunction with the Linux emulator
that FreeBSD 2.2 comes with. I use the reader now for some weeks without
any problem. FreeBSD 2.1 offers such an emulation as well, but I don't
know how if it works well enough to run the Reader, so should try it
with a 2.2 system if you can.
There is a section in the handbook on how to install the linux
emulation and the Acrobat Reader is part of the ports collection (look
under /usr/ports/print/acroread), so the installation shouldn't be a
great deal.
If you still have problems installing everything correctly, I can give
more detailed information that hopefully will help you.
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