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To: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: print/acroread9 Adobe Reader
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On 10/28/14 15:22, Russell L. Carter wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> On 10/28/14 07:00, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>> Hi hrs@FreeBSD.org & ports@freebsd.org
> 
>> I went to install print/acroread9 for current & found it was not in
>> ports/.
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
>> I am Forced to use Adobe Reader by British government tax office. 
>> http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/ct600.html
> 
> [...]
> 
> Just curious, have you tried to use firefox to sign those forms?  I was
> tied to acroread for more than ten years because of all of the pdfs I
> deal with but recently discovered that firefox renders pdfs as well as
> acroread.  Don't know about the signing part though.
> 

Meybe wine can help?

Also virtualbox + some other OS which is supported by adobe?

I agree these are no optimal solutions but could solve the problem at hand.

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Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>