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From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Acroread and FreeBSD 2.1.6.1
Date: 9 Feb 1997 12:09:00 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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> David A. Bader wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   Does anyone have a .pdf viewer (Adobe Acrobat) Acroread working with
> > FreeBSD 2.1.6.1? If so, please let me know the details. I used a
> > tarball which made acroread, but when I go to view a PDF file, I get a
> > syntax error in acroread.

You must be running 2.2 or later of FreeBSD in order to use the Linux
version of Acroread as 2.1.6.* doesn't support ELF binaries.

In the mean time, gv and ghostscript 4.x both support many PDF (not all)
files.

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