Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 15:55:22 +1000 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: mexas@bristol.ac.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations Message-ID: <20121004055522.GA92189@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <20121003112638.a2f79f6d.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <201210030750.q937oGE3094218@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20121003112638.a2f79f6d.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Wed 2012-10-03 11:26:38 UTC+0200, Polytropon (freebsd@edvax.de) wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:50:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > I got sent a pdf file, version 1.6, with annotations. > > xpdf can view the file, but not the annotations. > > Please suggest a pdf viewer from ports that might help. > > I haven't checked, but the "Adobe Reader" (port: acroread, > e. g. acroread9) should be able to do this, as PDF 1.6 > support is in that product since version 7 (Jan. 2005). > > I'm not sure if it would be "less bloaty" to use a PDF > viewer coming with one of the big desktop environments > KDE or Gnome: Evince, KPDF or Okular... I'm not using > any of these, so I can't make better recommendations. > Whenever I approach the border of what xpdf and gv can > do, I use "acroread <filename>". :-) I'm curious if anyone's tried running the Linux version of FoxItReader under FreeBSD's Linux emulation. There's a good chance it supports showing annotations. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/download.php Also I suspect Chromium (www/chromium) has an internal PDF viewer like the Windows & Linux versions do. It may also show annotations. A cursory web search for a PDF with annotations came up empty, otherwise I'd test both natively in Ubuntu.
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