Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:04:54 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: print/acroread9 Adobe Reader Message-ID: <544FF6E6.7070002@pinyon.org> In-Reply-To: <201410281643.s9SGhGgE060617@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201410281643.s9SGhGgE060617@fire.js.berklix.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Julian, On 10/28/14 09:43, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Guido Falsi wrote: >> On 10/28/14 15:22, Russell L. Carter wrote: >>> Hi Julian, >>> >>> On 10/28/14 07:00, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >>>> Hi hrs@FreeBSD.org & ports@freebsd.org >>> >>>> I went to install print/acroread9 for current & found it was >>>> not in ports/. >>> >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> I am Forced to use Adobe Reader by British government tax >>>> office. http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/ct600.html >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> Just curious, have you tried to use firefox to sign those >>> forms? I was tied to acroread for more than ten years because >>> of all of the pdfs I deal with but recently discovered that >>> firefox renders pdfs as well as acroread. Don't know about the >>> signing part though. >>> >> >> Meybe wine can help? >> >> Also virtualbox + some other OS which is supported by adobe? >> >> I agree these are no optimal solutions but could solve the >> problem at hand. > > Thanks Guido, Yes, in future years, I may have to, If Adobe really > drops/ has dropped Unix, & If/when FreeBSD ABIs become incompatible > with the Linux binaries. > > However that would be horrible work, installing an MS partition > just for Adobe reader. I have a virtualbox XP installation that I use to run winblows kindle and calibre. That's all it does. And believe it or not, that just got obsoleted because *calibre* no longer supports XP. I may be on my current version of XP calibre a long time. Anyway, works great. Actually installed this years ago on linux and then just copied the vm over when I divorced linux earlier this year. I can see using that XP vm for acroread, if I got in a situation like yours. You can easily put a, um, "folder" to your home directory so that all of your files live natively in FreeBSD. I have read where people arrange it so that they just run a script and a virtualbox vm launches, then launches whatever app they have dedicated to that vm, so that it appears as if it were completely native (you work in your own homedir, it prints, etc. etc.) I notice no noticeable overhead on the rest of the FreeBSD environment while I'm running that vm. Best of luck, Russell Best of luck, Russell > > While ABIS remain compatible, I will prefer to use acroread, even > if I have to migrate forward & maintain the last acroread port > myself. > > Cheers, Julian > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUT/bmAAoJEFnLrGVSDFaE0bAP/jrHt3wLc3fusMt7s6uHApsc qAXOY5BJoofoPMWhUI87hxZ72NjEqWX6eodV73K9jQrTRxPN3XogZ2Q5u8z9CpmH w2fmdr5K/trSXStIXRvgkcPc9iQbBKrbAKAfKJAwvLD2doXnOAOY9xXPjlqw0qyk qZjhXy0WvFfuvWdxmNYTA2P1hE1dz1NXy0/z4Y5SpaBPkyUj1EUHCZGbNCnRt7rf Ik5tn55HQPvaWHIXa1p2HUX++J4TBMUJgY+Sh3QdR5rxlpPSb2AcYSScQVey0HnU vfKduNo+PZMg5IIsPhEkLFm2ya1I1MWnAy2JZQQAaIsTP1jPTOLwVp9ALZKbK+xy +5/BkiRNqivg2kAHrge6E55mG2hMIsooS/PAEcCUMwKMhLpiknd/jWHInUxFBSul FRdW7LQtleXJHVfnMQVKGTQNxOc+9IE1o8whgwJJ/x047uFbUEG6PagLxWgoAm/p MgyNeKDXc84IrQ8oRPvEPV62p94enO/7wXHIWkes9vASEv3hiXfjVIXdEK/7DbS1 7+jGfg6fR6XubpZJxrzgUAqUut+JGZBY5tsxSW3m+VRUgNBec5xkwdYcQbyBXTs8 rH4gdzH0DfQSsAlq1tyeXUOojqzA3gvKjq/fU9auVmj3kG9ZU5dxvOqpOEooiNDB m/D299GaAhZxJIsWuzJD =v7sk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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