From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 26 19:08:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA09620 for current-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:08:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA09599 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.24]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.Gamma.0/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA14369; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:08:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA12751; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:08:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: skipper.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:08:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: Michael Smith cc: Julian Elischer , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Acrobat Reader 3.0 Beta for Linux! (fwd)] In-Reply-To: <199609270114.KAA17129@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Julian Elischer stands accused of saying: > > > > I saw this on c.o.l.a. Now you can read encrypted pdf file on FreeBSD > > via Linux emulation. I installed it on crab and it seems to work fine > > as long as you have the required shared libs for linux. > > It has been possible to read encrypted PDF files on FreeBSD using ghostscript > and gv or ghostview for quite some time now. It would be nice if apsfilter > recognised PDF so that one could just print the junk rather than having to > translate it first. > > (Note that due to the interesting american laws regarding encryption > technology, the PDF decoding code isn't included in the stock gs release. > I wonder how Adobe get around this...) I'd read that pdf files weren't really encrypted, just compressed (and called encrypted). Not so? > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------