From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 7 17:34:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA16263 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 17:34:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA16233 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 17:33:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id MAA14698; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 12:03:11 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702080133.MAA14698@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: PD PDF viewer? was: barracuda jumpers In-Reply-To: from Jonathan Lemon at "Feb 7, 97 10:32:15 am" To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 12:03:10 +1030 (CST) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[