From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 16:19:40 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C76F6289 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from land.berklix.org (land.berklix.org [144.76.10.75]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 535F9178 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:19:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (p5DCBDDA0.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.203.221.160]) (authenticated bits=128) by land.berklix.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s9SGG1rO093048; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:16:02 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s9SGJMB2096626; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:19:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s9SGIw33059947; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:19:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Message-Id: <201410281619.s9SGIw33059947@fire.js.berklix.net> To: "Russell L. Carter" Subject: Re: print/acroread9 Adobe Reader From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultants, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Tue, 28 Oct 2014 07:22:04 -0700." <544FA68C.9070502@pinyon.org> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:18:58 +0100 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:19:41 -0000 "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? No. Good idea, but before I can click the form to do the signing it would have to display the form, & firefox fails to do that, I guess because PDF 1.7 is rare (though no longer a new format). file ct600.pdf ct600.pdf: PDF document, version 1.7 firefox ct600.pdf Please wait... If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display this type of document. You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for Windows, Mac, or Linux by visiting http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. For more assistance with Adobe Reader visit http://www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html. Windows is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries > 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. I normaly use graphics/xpdf for up to PDF document, version 1.5, but a couple of years ago (probably when I first encountered PDF document, version 1.7 from the UK tax office) I searched & listed all PDF handling tools I could find on FreeBSD; most are noted with "pdf" in http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/jhs/print/Makefile.local & other parallel ../*/Makefile.local , & a few more notes if one scrolls down to "pdf doc viewing notes" in http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/bin/.csh/syntax I didnt find anything that would work on 1.7 except acroread, (+ I didnt know what tax office wanted re. doc signing, so my first attempt was with an Adobe Reader running on a small XP partition (Ugh!!), till I escaped back to FreeBSD. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com Indent previous with "> ". Interleave reply paragraphs like a play script. Send plain text, not quoted-printable, HTML, base64, or multipart/alternative.