From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 16:29:48 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 3BAD6AC7 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:29:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x230.google.com (mail-ig0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2F7129C for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:29:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f176.google.com with SMTP id hn18so8034617igb.9 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:29:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=x5dGqoEaYLlD+ZtPGoysJvdENDlL0xi/PREtZ4DaYVg=; b=SRL20uNhCewNCZo6p9k7dtyugudavKH5v0mAJJLD/uKiRqIHIkSsPDsDmB/43R08lb LsPpv0eMWzKqNXtAwNG7OwdNQc7fzgDmxT8bZDwMwfguJpgcLSVtMscRyvSKdP2s9Vcm hAEzZIvRl6rYoTNxdGoYDzD0u3Kan0fJG+Jf+duAHXH6i6fMQneRgXn8KKQXA5U3naMF nsNppmBy9ffAZTNGouSitH1Q/9l/ULCIDUwNvPSmZgkKh3p3XKuD8hNiiagszSHYUOOh LeQr2OCpQfh/ZE3tMzXpjVA2jmDdpV1WoSRzuHZrhkgx6ABOlN4mEu01/AQXK89uK2oi 3zGg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.43.75.138 with SMTP id za10mr4936582icb.23.1414513787329; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:29:47 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.11.152 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:29:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201410281619.s9SGIw33059947@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <544FA68C.9070502@pinyon.org> <201410281619.s9SGIw33059947@fire.js.berklix.net> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:29:47 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2aKcjyfsxH8jpKzW_8blx2zPv_I Message-ID: Subject: Re: print/acroread9 Adobe Reader From: Kevin Oberman To: "Julian H. Stacey" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: "Russell L. Carter" , FreeBSD Ports ML 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 16:29:48 -0000 On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > "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 Can't say of if it supports pdf 1.7, but I have had excellent results with evince. It uses poppler for PDFs and poppler is still very actively supported (last release was last month). -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com