From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 3 14:28:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBD4106566B for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 14:28:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamie@kode5.net) Received: from kontrol.kode5.net (kontrol.kode5.net [80.229.5.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598D98FC17 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 14:28:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kontrol.kode5.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kontrol.kode5.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q93ES7cb040572 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:28:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@kode5.net) Received: (from jamie@localhost) by kontrol.kode5.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q93ES6L9040571 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:28:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@kode5.net) X-Authentication-Warning: kontrol.kode5.net: jamie set sender to jamie@kode5.net using -f Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:28:06 +0100 From: Jamie Paul Griffin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20121003142806.GB2299@kontrol.kode5.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201210030750.q937oGE3094218@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20121003112638.a2f79f6d.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121003112638.a2f79f6d.freebsd@edvax.de> x-operating-system: FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE amd64 x-pgp-fingerprint: A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38 x-pgp-key: 1D31DC38 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.6 at kontrol.kode5.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:28:10 -0000 [ 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 ". :-) 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