From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 4 09:02:06 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 091A51065678 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:02:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C5A8FCAF for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 08:24:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsc.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.41]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TJgjD-0005Fj-Vf; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:24:20 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncsc.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TJgjD-0002j0-IT; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:24:19 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q948OJfU063499; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:24:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q948OJ3N063498; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:24:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:24:19 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht Message-Id: <201210040824.q948OJ3N063498@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd@edvax.de, mail@ozzmosis.com In-Reply-To: <20121004055522.GA92189@ozzmosis.com> Cc: mexas@bristol.ac.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:02:06 -0000 From mail@ozzmosis.com Thu Oct 4 07:56:05 2012 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 ". :-) 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. Thank you all for the suggestions. In general I think installing the linux layer defeats the whole joy of fbsd. Why use linux layer on fbsd if I can just use linux directly. Perhaps I'm spoiled by having access to multiple fbsd and linux boxes. Maybe it's more of an issue for others. Anyway, evince didn't work for me at all, probably some ia64 issue. The easiest solution for me is acroread on linux. Thanks again Anton