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Re: pdf file reader

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Sit)
Wed Sep 17 09:39:50 1997

To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Eric Sit <esit@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Sep 1997 13:57:34 EDT."
             <199709161757.NAA26232@small-gods.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:39:32 EDT
From: Eric Sit <esit@MIT.EDU>


I just did a fresh netbsd install, and i assumed that athena would have
the plugin to Adobe Acrobat setup already.  the error message i get is:

No plugin nppdf.so. Reverting to save-to-disk for type application/pdf.

thanks,
eric

> > is there a pdf reader for NetBSD?  I seem to have trouble running
> > the adobe acrobat reader for linux one.
> 
> Could you please say what problems you're having?  acroread works fine
> for me.
> 
> (Alternatively, you can try using ghostview, which works with many PDF
> files, although the output quality tends to be worse.)



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