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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!torn!news1.bellglobal.com!sympatico.ca!not-for-mail From: gbuchanan@localhost.on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Acroread and FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 Date: 9 Feb 1997 21:47:20 GMT Organization: Sympatico Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5dlgl8$g1f$1@news1.sympatico.ca> References: <5dfeoc$i0@eve.umiacs.umd.edu> <5djb78$2ees@kagunews.rs.kagu.sut.ac.jp> Reply-To: gbuchanan@sympatico.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp1905.on.sympatico.ca X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35244 In article <5djb78$2ees@kagunews.rs.kagu.sut.ac.jp>, umeno@hanlab.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jp (Takashi UMENO) writes: >>> >>> 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. >I'm using gv 2.7 b5 + ghostscrpt 4.03 to read PDF file. > I just fetched xpdf and built it under 2.1.6. It works great. It has support for document internal and file-to-file hypertext links (but not URLs). It also has no support for encrypted PDFs. For info, look here: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dn0o/xpdf/xpdf.html ============================================ Gardner Buchanan <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca> Ottawa, ON