From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 12 13:11:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA18222 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 13:11:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from watermarkgroup.com (lor.watermarkgroup.com [38.246.139.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA18217 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 13:11:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by watermarkgroup.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17059; Thu, 12 Jun 97 16:10:32 EDT Date: Thu, 12 Jun 97 16:10:32 EDT From: luoqi@watermarkgroup.com (Luoqi Chen) Message-Id: <9706122010.AA17059@watermarkgroup.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comment/Suggestion - Adobe Products - Acrobat Reader (fwd) Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >> if ypu want pdf reader, exists xpdf > >It does not handle "encryption". The only purpose of "encryption" >seems to be to make the thing require an Acrobat reader instead of >xpdf (or some other third party reader). > I have made xpdf to work with encrypted documents. The author also claimed he had such a version, but didn't release the code because the encryption algorithm (RC4) was a trade secret. I could post my patch if someone is interested, but you need to get RC4 code yourself (I got it from some ftp site outside US, I forgot the address). -lq > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers.