From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 5 14:27:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA20629 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 14:27:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA20620 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 14:27:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA03631 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org); Thu, 5 Sep 1996 23:10:34 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA19306; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 23:04:22 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199609052104.XAA19306@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: acrobat .pdf files To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 23:04:22 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199609051823.LAA09596@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 5, 96 11:23:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------