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From: Peter Howlett <Peter.Howlett@ASG.unb.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PDF viewer for FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 10:59:20 -0300
Organization: Atlantic Systems Group
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Scott Arthur Muma wrote:
> 
>         We have successfully compiled xpdf for FreeBSD 2.1.0.  It's a
> pretty good pdf viewer, and the port was nearly brainless to do.  We had
> to add two pounds to the Makefile.config and delete two other!  Does
> anybody know if there is a better pdf viewer available for FreeBSD?
> 
>         If I get time I will try to do the procedure for making xpdf into
> a port for FreeBSD.  If someone else has already done this or can give me
> a reason why I shouldn't bother just email me.  Thanks

Very cool. I was not aware there were other PDF viewers around.
(hoping that Acrobat for BSDI or something might be on the porting
list at Adobe, I sent them comments, hoping other FreeBSD people
might be doing the same). I would very much like to get a hold of
your PDF viewer. Anything you could do (source patches, binaries,
whatever) would be greatly appreciated!

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