Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 16:43:39 -0500 From: Dan Riley <daniel@vailsys.com> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>, jdunham@fc.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD Message-ID: <33496A8B.CA7AD306@vailsys.com> References: <199704071231.HAA00329@rider.fc.net> <199704071353.IAA08352@dyson.iquest.net> <19970407102953.15410@ct.picker.com>
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Randall Hopper wrote: > > John S. Dyson: > |jdunham@fc.net: > |> What version of Acrobat Reader works with FreeBSD and where might I go to > |> acquire it? Adobe's site does not seem to contain anything close enough, > |> although the acroread startup script claims one of the options is for > |> Intel/BSDi. > |> > |The Linux version appears to work fine on recent versions of FreeBSD. > > That I've tried, the Linux version runs OK except that it doesn't generate > valid postscript. This is unfortunate when dealing with encrypted PDFs as > xpdf and ghostscript don't handle encrypted PDFs. > > Anyone got a little-known FreeBSD solution for printing encrypted PDFs? > What Linux version runs on 2.2.1? The version that I picked up at, ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/3.x/acroread_linux_30.tar.gz installs but will not run. /usr/local/Acrobat3/bin > ./acroread The OS named FreeBSD version 2.2.1-RELEASE is currently not installed. Try running on a installed platform and connecting to your display. Installed platform(s) include the following: Intel/Linux Thanks for the help, Dan
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