Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 12:03:10 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PD PDF viewer? was: barracuda jumpers Message-ID: <199702080133.MAA14698@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970207103215.jlemon@right.PCS> from Jonathan Lemon at "Feb 7, 97 10:32:15 am"
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Jonathan Lemon stands accused of saying: > > > The acroread linux binary works pretty well too. See > > > /usr/ports/print/acroread. > > > > As does Ghostscript 3.53 on PDF files. > > Except, AFAIK, neither Ghostscript nor xpdf will deal with 'encoded' PDF > files (like the Intel chip manuals). Ghostscript with the RC4 patch works fine on "encrypted" PDF files. Unfortunately, it looks like there's a new revision of the PDF format that people like National Instruments are using (rev 1.2) that neither xpdf nor Ghostscript 4 can handle. > Jonathan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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