Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:08:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Acrobat Reader 3.0 Beta for Linux! (fwd)] Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960926220755.13055D-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199609270114.KAA17129@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Julian Elischer stands accused of saying: > > > > I saw this on c.o.l.a. Now you can read encrypted pdf file on FreeBSD > > via Linux emulation. I installed it on crab and it seems to work fine > > as long as you have the required shared libs for linux. > > It has been possible to read encrypted PDF files on FreeBSD using ghostscript > and gv or ghostview for quite some time now. It would be nice if apsfilter > recognised PDF so that one could just print the junk rather than having to > translate it first. > > (Note that due to the interesting american laws regarding encryption > technology, the PDF decoding code isn't included in the stock gs release. > I wonder how Adobe get around this...) I'd read that pdf files weren't really encrypted, just compressed (and called encrypted). Not so? > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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