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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.kreonet.re.kr!news.imnet.ad.jp!news.join.ad.jp!sutnews.sut.ac.jp!news.kagu!umeno From: umeno@hanlab.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jp (Takashi UMENO) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Acroread and FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 Date: 10 Feb 1997 10:11:11 GMT Organization: Science University of Tokyo, Kagurazaka campus, Japan Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5dms7v$2eb2@kagunews.rs.kagu.sut.ac.jp> References: <5dfeoc$i0@eve.umiacs.umd.edu> <5djb78$2ees@kagunews.rs.kagu.sut.ac.jp> <5dlgl8$g1f$1@news1.sympatico.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: hangai.hanlab.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: mnews [version 1.20] 1996-12/08(Sun) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35277 In article <5dlgl8$g1f$1@news1.sympatico.ca>, gbuchanan@localhost.on.sympatico.ca writes >> 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: I'm using xpdf-0.6 ,too. 1. There is a file which can be read by ghostscript, but can't be read by xpdf. 2. Xpdf is faster than ghostscript (nice). 3. Xpdf can't read Japanese PDF file. X-< Ghostscript with japanese patch can't read Japanese PDF file, too. >> >> http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dn0o/xpdf/xpdf.html ftp://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/linux/X11/xapps/graphics/viewers/xpdf-0.6.tar.gz