Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 19:26:53 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: PDF viewers Message-ID: <199602091826.TAA03031@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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I got this message from an unrelated list. It's a pdf viewer which seems to work reasonably well, and it's probably faster than using ghostscript (and certainly much smaller). Worth a try, and possibly making it a package. Luigi > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 14:38:13 -0500 > From: "Derek B. Noonburg" <derekn@VW.ECE.CMU.EDU> > Subject: PDF viewers (was Re: Re[2]: data in mpasm and User's Guide) > In-reply-to: "04 Feb 1996 10:45:54 +0200." > <199602050638.BAA12900@vw.ece.cmu.edu> > Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> > To: Multiple recipients of list PICLIST <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> > Reply-to: pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> > Message-id: <01I0XG2P9H6C95MVF8@mailsrv.cnuce.cnr.it> > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > X-To: pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> > X-Status: > ... > > I'll take this opportunity to plug xpdf, my free PDF viewer for X. It's > still an alpha version, but it works reasonably well. I designed it to > be small and efficient (no Motif - and it was developed entirely on a 12 > MB 486 under Linux), so you should be able to run it on pretty much > anything that can handle X. > > One thing -- it seems that some (most? all?) of Microchip's PDF files > are encrypted. Adobe hasn't released the specs for decryption, so > you're forced to use an Adobe viewer. I know that Microchip watches > this list, so I'd like to encourage them to stop using this pointless > encryption. > > The xpdf home page is: > http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dn0o/xpdf/xpdf.html > > Source code and several binaries are available from ftp.andrew.cmu.edu > in the /pub/xpdf directory. > > - Derek > ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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