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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PDF viewer for FreeBSD Date: 5 Jun 1996 06:38:52 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4p3a1s$pcr@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4p2dre$iag@tribune.usask.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E sam136@alf.usask.ca (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? ghostscript? Version 3 can also display PDF files. > If I get time I will try to do the procedure for making xpdf into > a port for FreeBSD. There's already a port for it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)