From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 20:03:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11EA16A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:03:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B8B743D54 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:03:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ewinter@lobo.homeunix.org) Received: (qmail 15735 invoked by uid 513); 24 Nov 2004 20:03:58 -0000 Received: from ewinter@lobo.homeunix.org by dsl-mail by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.21 Clear:RC:1(82.141.58.21):SA:0(-4.9/5.0):. Processed in 16.94708 secs); 24 Nov 2004 20:03:58 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO lobo.homeunix.org) (82.141.58.21) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 24 Nov 2004 20:03:41 -0000 Received: from lobo.homeunix.org (localhost.homeunix.org [127.0.0.1]) by lobo.homeunix.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAOK6sUd003263; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:06:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ewinter@lobo.homeunix.org) Received: (from ewinter@localhost) by lobo.homeunix.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iAOK6rfb003262; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:06:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ewinter) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:06:53 +0100 From: "Ernst W. Winter" To: Chuck Robey Message-ID: <20041124200653.GB2754@lobo.homeunix.org> References: <20041124145143.O4002@april.chuckr.org> <20041124194744.GA2102@lobo.homeunix.org> <20041124151507.M4002@april.chuckr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041124151507.M4002@april.chuckr.org> X-Phone: + 49-89-3075-6800 Organization: FreeBSD Evangelist X-Operating-System: FreeBSD lobo.homeunix.org 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: acroread on the amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Ernst W. Winter" List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:03:54 -0000 On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Ernst W. Winter wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > > Anyone have more detailed info about that? Notice, I didn't mail > > > to freeBSD-ports, I don't know how strict our mailing list filters > > > are, I thought they'd probably kick me out if I tried to > > > cross-post. > > > > > well I would suggest that you should try "xpdf" or "gpdf" and "gv" as > > that would cover that part well, I never have used the Acrobat reader > > as these other always done whatever I needed them for and I have > > compiled them now with a AMD64 here and they behave well. I would > > say, try it. > > Trying to get apsfilter working, and it wants acroread, so I'm going to > *try* that first. In my own experience, although it's rare, there ARE > those docs that get read by acroread, and not by xpdf, I've seen them. > well I never used that option and with xpdf there where a time when there where some hickups, but so far no more, also as I said there is gpdf and it works well and I have seen others with kde that do the job well, so far I have collected some Gigabyte of documents as I do research for people and neve had any problems and do I can't comment on Acroread either. Ernst -- Ernst Winter ewinter@ewinter.org "Nec scire fas est onmnia" --Horaz Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what?