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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
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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