Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:10:52 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@synet.net> To: shawn@luke.cpl.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdf? Message-ID: <199701301810.MAA07180@base486.synet.net>
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Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> wrote: > Is there a viewer that supports excrypted PDF's for FreeBSD? GV or xpdf > don't seem to work. :( If you look at ghostscript's file "pdf_sec.ps" you'll find the comments: % pdf_sec.ps % Security hooks for PDF reader. % This file contains the procedures that have to take encryption into % account when reading a PDF file. There is no actual decryption code here, % because U.S. export control laws might prohibit making this file available % to anyone outside the U.S. if the code were included. Instead, you can % get the real version of this file from % http://www.ozemail.com.au/~geoffk/pdfencrypt/pdf_sec.ps % or, if the ~ character upsets your software, % http://www.ozemail.com.au/%7Egeoffk/pdfencrypt/pdf_sec.ps Although I've installed the modifications to my copy of Ghostscript 4.3, I have not (to my knowledge) had an encrypted pdf file upon which to test them. Dave Bodenstab imdave@synet.net
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