From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 13 13:47:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA18750 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:47:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from chai.plexuscom.com (chai.plexuscom.com [207.87.46.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18736 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:46:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chai.plexuscom.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA24815; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:46:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199611132146.QAA24815@chai.plexuscom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: chai.plexuscom.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Thomas Gellekum Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [comp.os.linux.announce] xpdf 0.6 - a PDF viewer for X In-reply-to: Your message of "13 Nov 1996 08:58:25 +0100." <87ybg62zq5.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:46:05 -0500 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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