Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:29:47 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: print/acroread9 Adobe Reader Message-ID: <CAN6yY1u1vC_1QMkAggd5dw_DThhDt=bzck9a0%2Brq4LPPiDy6Tw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201410281619.s9SGIw33059947@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <544FA68C.9070502@pinyon.org> <201410281619.s9SGIw33059947@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: > "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? > > No. Good idea, but before I can click the form to do the signing > it would have to display the form, & firefox fails to do that, I > guess because PDF 1.7 is rare (though no longer a new format). > > file ct600.pdf > ct600.pdf: PDF document, version 1.7 > firefox ct600.pdf > Please wait... > If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper > contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able > to display this type of document. > You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for > Windows, Mac, or Linux by visiting > http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. > For more assistance with Adobe Reader visit > http://www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html. > Windows is either a registered trademark or a trademark of > Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other > countries. Mac is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in > the United States and other countries. Linux is the registered > trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries > > > > 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. > > I normaly use graphics/xpdf for up to PDF document, version 1.5, > but a couple of years ago (probably when I first encountered PDF > document, version 1.7 from the UK tax office) I searched & listed > all PDF handling tools I could find on FreeBSD; most are noted with > "pdf" in > > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/jhs/print/Makefile.local > & other parallel ../*/Makefile.local , & a few more notes if one scrolls > down > to "pdf doc viewing notes" in > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/bin/.csh/syntax > > I didnt find anything that would work on 1.7 except acroread, > (+ I didnt know what tax office wanted re. doc signing, so my first > attempt was with an Adobe Reader running on a small XP partition > (Ugh!!), till I escaped back to FreeBSD. > > Cheers, > Julian > -- > Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich > http://berklix.com Can't say of if it supports pdf 1.7, but I have had excellent results with evince. It uses poppler for PDFs and poppler is still very actively supported (last release was last month). -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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