Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:46:05 -0500 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@plexuscom.com> To: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [comp.os.linux.announce] xpdf 0.6 - a PDF viewer for X Message-ID: <199611132146.QAA24815@chai.plexuscom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "13 Nov 1996 08:58:25 %2B0100." <87ybg62zq5.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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> If you've wanted to look at PDF files, but couldn't because Adobe > didn't have a viewer for your system, you'll want to check out xpdf. xpdf is a fine effort and I do use it regularly since it is more than adequate for many jobs, lanuches quickly and uses resources more sparingly. But I want to point out that adobe's acrobat reader for linux works fine on freebsd-2.2 provided you have linux emulation and have installed linux shared libs. It is *far superior* to xpdf-0.5 and gv-2.7.6 when it comes to image quality, letter quality (thanks to anti-aliasing), font support, letter spacing and rendering speed. It also has some very useful features (such as a full-screen mode, ability to launch/talk with a web browser etc., use bookmarks and links within the documents as well as web-links etc). Quick instructions: ftp acroread_linux_b1106.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.adobe.com//pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/3.x/ untar the above file and you get a couple of tar files along with other files. mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/acrobat cd /usr/local/lib/acrobat tar xf ILINXR.TAR tar xf READ.TAR cp bin/acroread.sh /usr/local/bin/acroread and edit acroread so that install_dir=/usr/local/lib/acrobat/Reader and right *after* line 214 add ACRO_CONFIG=intellinux export ACRO_CONFIG and make acroread an executable. A good example to try is http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/postscript/PDFS/brilliantscreens.pdf -- bakul
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