Date: Thu, 17 Apr 97 12:01:42 +0200 From: garyj@frt.dec.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD Message-ID: <9704171001.AA02531@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> In-Reply-To: Message from grog@lemis.de of Wed, 16 Apr 97 16:02:14 %2B0200.
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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
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