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Date:      Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:28:06 +0100
From:      Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@kode5.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations
Message-ID:  <20121003142806.GB2299@kontrol.kode5.net>
In-Reply-To: <20121003112638.a2f79f6d.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <201210030750.q937oGE3094218@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20121003112638.a2f79f6d.freebsd@edvax.de>

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[ Polytropon wrote on Wed  3.Oct'12 at 11:26:38 +0200 ]

> On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:50:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > I got sent a pdf file, version 1.6, with annotations.
> > xpdf can view the file, but not the annotations.
> > Please suggest a pdf viewer from ports that might help.
> 
> I haven't checked, but the "Adobe Reader" (port: acroread,
> e. g. acroread9) should be able to do this, as PDF 1.6
> support is in that product since version 7 (Jan. 2005).
> 
> I'm not sure if it would be "less bloaty" to use a PDF
> viewer coming with one of the big desktop environments
> KDE or Gnome: Evince, KPDF or Okular... I'm not using
> any of these, so I can't make better recommendations.
> Whenever I approach the border of what xpdf and gv can
> do, I use "acroread <filename>". :-)

I'm using adobe acroread on 9.1(stable) and it is ok. Bit slow starting up, but i've experienced no other issues

HTH, Jamie



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