Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:26:28 +0100 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: print/acroread9 Adobe Reader Message-ID: <544FC3B4.8050602@madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tQ16cA7LE-hdduZ%2B9CEo8CQYenCwHvOPz=39JZsHn-zw@mail.gmail.com> References: <201410281400.s9SE07p2010173@fire.js.berklix.net> <544FA68C.9070502@pinyon.org> <544FAA1C.2070304@madpilot.net> <CAN6yY1tQ16cA7LE-hdduZ%2B9CEo8CQYenCwHvOPz=39JZsHn-zw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/28/14 17:22, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net > <mailto:mad@madpilot.net>> 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 <mailto: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 > > > While there will be no future support for Adobe Reader, you can always > pull the last version of the port out of the repo. This will allow it to > be built as long as you keep a copy of the distro around. Depends on when it was removed from the ports tree. If it was removed before staging it will need some work before it installs successfully. (did not bother to check...) -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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