print/acroread9 Adobe Reader

[Kevin Oberman]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:

> "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?
>
> No.  Good idea, but before I can click the form to do the signing
> it would have to display the form, & firefox fails to do that, I
> guess because PDF 1.7 is rare (though no longer a new format).
>
> file ct600.pdf
>         ct600.pdf: PDF document, version 1.7
> firefox ct600.pdf
>         Please wait...
>         If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper
>         contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able
>         to display this type of document.
>         You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for
>         Windows, Mac, or Linux by visiting
>         http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
>         For more assistance with Adobe Reader visit
>         http://www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html.
>         Windows is either a registered trademark or a trademark of
>         Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other
>         countries. Mac is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in
>         the United States and other countries. Linux is the registered
>         trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries
>
>
> > 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.
>
> I normaly use graphics/xpdf for up to PDF document, version 1.5,
> but a couple of years ago (probably when I first encountered PDF
> document, version 1.7 from the UK tax office) I searched & listed
> all PDF handling tools I could find on FreeBSD; most are noted with
> "pdf" in
>
> http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/jhs/print/Makefile.local
> & other parallel ../*/Makefile.local , & a few more notes if one scrolls
> down
> to "pdf doc viewing notes" in
>         http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/bin/.csh/syntax
>
> I didnt find anything that would work on 1.7 except acroread,
> (+ I didnt know what tax office wanted re. doc signing, so my first
> attempt was with an Adobe Reader running on a small XP partition
> (Ugh!!), till I escaped back to FreeBSD.
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
> --
> Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich
> http://berklix.com


Can't say of if it supports pdf 1.7, but I have had excellent results with
evince. It uses poppler for PDFs and poppler is still very actively
supported (last release was last month).
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com