Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 20:34:35 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Dan Riley <daniel@vailsys.com> Cc: jdunham@fc.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD Message-ID: <19970408203435.28613@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <33496A8B.CA7AD306@vailsys.com>; from Dan Riley on Mon, Apr 07, 1997 at 04:43:39PM -0500 References: <199704071231.HAA00329@rider.fc.net> <199704071353.IAA08352@dyson.iquest.net> <19970407102953.15410@ct.picker.com> <33496A8B.CA7AD306@vailsys.com>
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Dan Riley: |Randall Hopper wrote: |> |jdunham@fc.net: |> |> What version of Acrobat Reader works with FreeBSD and where might I |> |> go to acquire it? Adobe's site does not seem to contain anything |> |> close enough, although the acroread startup script claims one of |> |> the options is for Intel/BSDi. |> |> That I've tried, the Linux version runs OK except that it doesn't generate |> valid postscript. This is unfortunate when dealing with encrypted PDFs as |> xpdf and ghostscript don't handle encrypted PDFs. | |What Linux version runs on 2.2.1? | |The version that I picked up at, |ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/3.x/acroread_linux_30.tar.gz |installs but will not run. | |/usr/local/Acrobat3/bin > ./acroread |The OS named FreeBSD version 2.2.1-RELEASE is currently not installed. |Try running on a installed platform and connecting to your display. |Installed platform(s) include the following: | Intel/Linux I have the 3.0 Linux AcroRead installed and had to make these few changes to acroread.sh. Works ok on 2.2-GAMMA, except for (as I mentioned) generating PostScript: --- ORIG/acroread.sh Tue Apr 8 20:32:22 1997 +++ acroread.sh Thu Jan 30 16:36:08 1997 @@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ ver=3.0 -install_dir=REPLACE_ME +# RHH - Changed this +#install_dir=REPLACE_ME +install_dir=/opt/pkg/AcroRead-3.0/Reader # # Prepend a colon separated environment variable @@ -143,6 +145,9 @@ else os_release=`uname -r` fi + +# RHH - Added this +os_name=Linux case "$os_name" in SunOS) Randall
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