From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 17 03:07:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA23272 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 03:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail11.digital.com (mail11.digital.com [192.208.46.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA23267 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 03:07:00 -0700 (PDT) From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com by mail11.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) id GAA07824; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 06:01:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA02531; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:01:42 +0200 Message-Id: <9704171001.AA02531@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from grog@lemis.de of Wed, 16 Apr 97 16:02:14 +0200. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Apr 97 12:01:42 +0200 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk grog@lemis.de writes: > Jerry Dunham writes: > > > > 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. > > I've never used an Acrobat reader. Instead, I use the program pdftops > to convert it to PostScript, which it does reasonably well. Now if I > could only remember where I got the program. > a search on ftpsearch.ntnu.no finds quite a few hits. according to a pdftops.txt on one of the hits, it's a port of part of xpdf. Apparently the pdf-to-ps functionality was split out. Can pdftops handle encrypted pdf files ? That's the functionality I miss the most in xpdf. --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org