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Date:      Thu, 5 Sep 1996 23:04:22 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: acrobat .pdf files
Message-ID:  <199609052104.XAA19306@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199609051823.LAA09596@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 5, 96 11:23:58 am

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As Terry Lambert wrote...
> 
> > > > Is there a chance to view .PDF files under FreeBSD?
> > > 
> > > Newer versions of ghostscript understand pdf.
> > 
> > but xpdf is smaller and nicer to use.
> 
> Neither one handle Adobe's "encryption" of PDF.  It's silly to use
> the feature, since the only thing it does is force you to use Adobe

Ah, it is 'encryption'. I already encountered a number of pdf
files from the net that xpdf would not display.

Wilko
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