From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 20:45:22 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 DBBA916A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:45:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FCC743D49 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:45:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ewinter@lobo.homeunix.org) Received: (qmail 18474 invoked by uid 513); 24 Nov 2004 20:45:26 -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 5.940807 secs); 24 Nov 2004 20:45:26 -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 20:45:20 -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 iAOKmWSh004160; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:48:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ewinter@lobo.homeunix.org) Received: (from ewinter@localhost) by lobo.homeunix.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iAOKmVSX004159; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:48:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ewinter) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:48:31 +0100 From: "Ernst W. Winter" To: Chuck Robey Message-ID: <20041124204831.GA3367@lobo.homeunix.org> References: <20041124145143.O4002@april.chuckr.org> <20041124194744.GA2102@lobo.homeunix.org> <20041124151507.M4002@april.chuckr.org> <20041124200653.GB2754@lobo.homeunix.org> <20041124155620.B4002@april.chuckr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041124155620.B4002@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 20:45:22 -0000 On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Chuck Robey wrote: [..] > > > 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. > > Well, you did say (above) that you didn't try acroread, so I guess > you probably didn't even realize that one of the files that you > might have given up on, "garbage", actually might have printed with > acroread. Not common .... maybe not worth the work, I dunno, the Hmm, so far I had no problem, as I can convert it to something else. I have some experinece with that, and I can assre you since I started with Unix (that was with 386BSD form Bill Jollitz) and I never used any WINdum software as I'm very content with what FreeBSD has to offer. I tmight not be always there when you want it, but on the other hand I have learned to live with many things and found some nice conversions for various documents. I just had a example that someone sent me a *rtf and as a dcoument and the second part as *doc and you can just load them up with Abiword and convert them or print them and also manipulate them and then conver them again. I LOVE it!!! > damn install from Adobe is very , very unfriendly, I will have to > hack the heck out of it to get it to work, not sure I want to > invest all that skullsweat. > Why should you? I lived without and never used it and have nice life and do many conversions and there is enough software around to mak my life easy. > I do know how to do that, but I don't think it's worth too much > time. > Why bother, there are too many things around in the Unix world that can do wonders with some of the conversions. 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?