Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 14:49:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Douglas Ambrisko <ambrisko@tcsi.com> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: terry@lambert.org, 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: <199609052149.OAA23641@cozumel.tcs.com> In-Reply-To: <199609052104.XAA19306@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Sep 5, 96 11:04:22 pm
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Wilko Bulte writes: | | 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. Their 'encryption' feature means you can only use Adobe viewer which is totally bogus. I've already sent complaints to Adobe about this since they don't offer a viewer that can run on Linux or BSD. Doug A.
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