From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 17 03:06:05 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA15203 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 03:06:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id DAA15198 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 03:06:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from truk.brandinnovators.com (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 6931 on Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:42:52 +0100; id LAA06931 efrom: hans@truk.brandinnovators.com; eto: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: by truk.brandinnovators.com (8.7.5/BI96070101) for id LAA00895; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:37:45 GMT Message-Id: <199612171137.LAA00895@truk.brandinnovators.com> From: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) Subject: Re: Running Linux' Acrobat reader under 215R? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:37:45 +0000 () In-Reply-To: <199612170833.JAA24959@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> from Thomas Gellekum at "Dec 17, 96 09:33:26 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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