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From: gbuchanan@localhost.on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Acroread and FreeBSD 2.1.6.1
Date: 9 Feb 1997 21:47:20 GMT
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In article <5djb78$2ees@kagunews.rs.kagu.sut.ac.jp>,
	umeno@hanlab.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jp (Takashi UMENO) writes:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>I'm using gv 2.7 b5 + ghostscrpt 4.03 to read PDF file.
>

I just fetched xpdf and built it under 2.1.6.  It works great.
It has support for document internal and file-to-file hypertext
links (but not URLs).  It also has no support for encrypted PDFs.
For info, look here:

   http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dn0o/xpdf/xpdf.html

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Gardner Buchanan    <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca>
Ottawa, ON