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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 1996 18:16:39 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Cc:        moos@webmore.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Running Linux' Acrobat reader under 215R?
Message-ID:  <199612170746.SAA25768@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199612170740.IAA18027@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "Dec 17, 96 08:40:41 am"

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Christoph Kukulies stands accused of saying:
> > If you just want to read .pdf-files, you could use xpdf.
> 
> xpdf is known to be inadequate or insufficient in some respects.

This is mostly in connection with "encrypted" PDF files, and is due
to the usual anal export restrictions.  I don't know what Adobe do with
Acrobat; I read PDF files with gv and ghostscript and the RC4 patch.

> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de

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