print/acroread9 Adobe Reader

[Kevin Oberman]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net> wrote:

> On 10/28/14 15:22, Russell L. Carter wrote:
> > Hi Julian,
> >
> > On 10/28/14 07:00, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >> Hi hrs at FreeBSD.org & ports at freebsd.org
> >
> >> I went to install print/acroread9 for current & found it was not in
> >> ports/.
> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> I am Forced to use Adobe Reader by British government tax office.
> >> http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/ct600.html
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Just curious, have you tried to use firefox to sign those forms?  I was
> > tied to acroread for more than ten years because of all of the pdfs I
> > deal with but recently discovered that firefox renders pdfs as well as
> > acroread.  Don't know about the signing part though.
> >
>
> Meybe wine can help?
>
> Also virtualbox + some other OS which is supported by adobe?
>
> I agree these are no optimal solutions but could solve the problem at hand


While there will be no future support for Adobe Reader, you can always pull
the last version of the port out of the repo. This will allow it to be
built as long as you keep a copy of the distro around.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com