Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:37:45 +0000 () From: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running Linux' Acrobat reader under 215R? Message-ID: <199612171137.LAA00895@truk.brandinnovators.com> In-Reply-To: <199612170833.JAA24959@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> from Thomas Gellekum at "Dec 17, 96 09:33:26 am"
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> Thomas Gellekum wrote: > Michael Smith wrote: > > Christoph Kukulies stands accused of saying: > > > > If you just want to read .pdf-files, you could use xpdf. > > > > > > xpdf is known to be inadequate or insufficient in some respects. > > > > This is mostly in connection with "encrypted" PDF files, and is due > > to the usual anal export restrictions. I don't know what Adobe do with > > Acrobat; I read PDF files with gv and ghostscript and the RC4 patch. > > Well, last week I came across a damaged PDF file, which acrobat could > fix. gs just barfed on it. Hmmm... I've got some pdf files that make acrobat (v2 and v3!) barf while xpdf simply spits out warnings and continues with the next page... > tg, who is glad that there are many tools for one task hz, who is very glad that the freely available tools are often more robust than their commercial counterparts -- H. Zuidam E-Mail: hans@brandinnovators.com Brand Innovators B.V. P-Mail: P.O. Box 1377 de Pinckart 54 5602 BJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5674 CC Nuenen Tel. +31 40 2631134, Fax. +31 40 2831138
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