Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-07 Thread Greg Jones
You may want to look at Pdftk at http://www.pdflabs.com/. You may be able to use Pdftk to massage the pdf file you can open it. I don't know if it will build on OpenBSD (although there is a FreeBSD port.) Regards, On 12/07/10 03:47, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: On Tuesday 07 December 2010 08:

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-07 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
On Tuesday 07 December 2010 08:40:01 am Clint Pachl wrote: > Anthony Bentley wrote: > >> This happens when there are multiple PDFs embedded in a single PDF file. > >> I remember reading a Ghostscript bug about this (could probably find it > >> again if I had the exact error message), but unfortunat

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-06 Thread Clint Pachl
Anthony Bentley wrote: This happens when there are multiple PDFs embedded in a single PDF file. I remember reading a Ghostscript bug about this (could probably find it again if I had the exact error message), but unfortunately Mupdf still doesn't support it. Here is the Ghostscript bug: ht

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-06 Thread Clint Pachl
ropers wrote: On 6 December 2010 22:42, Clint Pachl wrote: Still get a single page PDF stating the above message. I guess it has to do with this PDF being a portfolio, like Anthony Bentley mentioned. How are the constituent PDFs stored in the portfolio PDF? Unencrypted? pdfinf

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-06 Thread ropers
On 6 December 2010 22:42, Clint Pachl wrote: > Still get a single page PDF stating the above message. > > I guess it has to do with this PDF being a portfolio, like Anthony Bentley > mentioned. How are the constituent PDFs stored in the portfolio PDF? Unencrypted? Would it be possible to simply u

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-06 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/12/6 Clint Pachl : > mentions a possible hack. okular apparently uses poppler as the backend. > Poppler is a fork of xpdf-3.0, so we're back to square one. To quote the mailing list motto: Stop whining. Where's the patch? ;-} I can find no bug report in the podofo bugzilla. Best Martin

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-06 Thread Clint Pachl
Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: I would be surprised if okular didn't open it. (okular being the KDE viewer) I don't have KDE so I can't test. But I did find this link: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=91242 It looks like portfolio PDFs are not supported, although someone there menti

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-06 Thread Anthony Bentley
> This happens when there are multiple PDFs embedded in a single PDF file. > I remember reading a Ghostscript bug about this (could probably find it > again if I had the exact error message), but unfortunately Mupdf still > doesn't support it. Here is the Ghostscript bug: http://bugs.ghostscript.c

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-06 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
I would be surprised if okular didn't open it. (okular being the KDE viewer) On 7 December 2010 10:42, Clint Pachl wrote: > Joachim Schipper wrote: >> >> On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 06:28:04PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: >> >>> >>> When I open [the UPS developer's guide] with xpdf(1) I get a [message]

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-06 Thread Clint Pachl
Joachim Schipper wrote: On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 06:28:04PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: When I open [the UPS developer's guide] with xpdf(1) I get a [message] to download the the latest Adobe crapware to view it. This is cheating, but have you tried throwing it into Google docs?

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-06 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 06:28:04PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: > When I open [the UPS developer's guide] with xpdf(1) I get a [message] > to download the the latest Adobe crapware to view it. This is cheating, but have you tried throwing it into Google docs? Joachim

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-04 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2010-12-05, Brynet wrote: > Hi, > > Why are you using xpdf? it's so old and crummy :-). > > print/epdfview, which uses the poppler library. AFAIK the poppler library is based on xpdf code so the result would be about the same. Best regards, Jona -- Worse is better Richard P. Gabriel

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-04 Thread shwegime
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Brynet wrote: Hi, Why are you using xpdf? it's so old and crummy :-). print/epdfview, which uses the poppler library. textproc/mupdf, independent renderer, pretty good. -Bryan. There is also textproc

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-04 Thread Brynet
On 12/04/10 23:09, Clint Pachl wrote: > All I can say is that I use cwm and don't like interfaces, GTK, gnome, > or KDE. I highly agree with Patrick. I also use cwm, but that doesn't means I completely avoid applications using GTK+ or even Qt, there aren't a whole lot of programs using xlib or xcb

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-04 Thread Clint Pachl
Brynet wrote: Hi, Why are you using xpdf? it's so old and crummy :-). print/epdfview, which uses the poppler library. textproc/mupdf, independent renderer, pretty good. -Bryan. All I can say is that I use cwm and don't like interfaces, GTK, gnome, or KDE. I highly agree with Patrick.

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-04 Thread Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Brynet wrote: > Hi, > > Why are you using xpdf? it's so old and crummy :-). > > print/epdfview, which uses the poppler library. > textproc/mupdf, independent renderer, pretty good. > > -Bryan. > > There is also textproc/zathura.

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-04 Thread patrick keshishian
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Brynet wrote: > Hi, > > Why are you using xpdf? it's so old and crummy :-) Not addressed to me, but my opinions below. > print/epdfview, which uses the poppler library. I haven't tried this, but I'm not a fan of GTK apps. most are fugly and clunky. > textproc/m

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-04 Thread Brynet
Hi, Why are you using xpdf? it's so old and crummy :-). print/epdfview, which uses the poppler library. textproc/mupdf, independent renderer, pretty good. -Bryan.

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-04 Thread Anthony J. Bentley
> UPS is so annoying. The UPS developer's guide is in a 9MB PDF file. When > I open it with xpdf(1) I get a (1) page PDF that states I need to > download the the latest Adobe crapware to view it. > > How can I get around this? Why does xpdf even abide? > > I tried the following gs(1) command hoping