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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!eurocontrol.fr!polaris.eurocontrol.fr!not-for-mail From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Acroread and FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 Date: 9 Feb 1997 12:09:00 GMT Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5dkeos$e6l$2@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> References: <5dfeoc$i0@eve.umiacs.umd.edu> <32FB9779.446B9B3D@dune-concept.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsposter: Pnews 4.0-test53 (3 Feb 97) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35217 > David A. Bader wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone have a .pdf viewer (Adobe Acrobat) Acroread working with > > FreeBSD 2.1.6.1? If so, please let me know the details. I used a > > tarball which made acroread, but when I go to view a PDF file, I get a > > syntax error in acroread. You must be running 2.2 or later of FreeBSD in order to use the Linux version of Acroread as 2.1.6.* doesn't support ELF binaries. In the mean time, gv and ghostscript 4.x both support many PDF (not all) files. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- Eurocontrol EEC/TS -=- Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr FreeBSD FAQ: <URL:http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/>