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Date:      Sat, 8 Feb 1997 12:03:10 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
Cc:        kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PD PDF viewer? was: barracuda jumpers
Message-ID:  <199702080133.MAA14698@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970207103215.jlemon@right.PCS> from Jonathan Lemon at "Feb 7, 97 10:32:15 am"

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Jonathan Lemon stands accused of saying:
> > > The acroread linux binary works pretty well too. See
> > > /usr/ports/print/acroread.
> > 
> > As does Ghostscript 3.53 on PDF files.
> 
> Except, AFAIK, neither Ghostscript nor xpdf will deal with 'encoded' PDF
> files (like the Intel chip manuals).

Ghostscript with the RC4 patch works fine on "encrypted" PDF files.
Unfortunately, it looks like there's a new revision of the PDF format
that people like National Instruments are using (rev 1.2) that neither
xpdf nor Ghostscript 4 can handle.

> Jonathan

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