Yes you could run the linux Acrobat binary in Brandz, but I'd advocate
using evince instead. It's opensource and from my experience, it works
better than acroread. I brought up a pdf from my ISP the other day, it
looked O.K. in acroread (sparc) but printed as all "p"s. Evince
displayed it and printed it fine. Acroread isn't a great application,
never was. I've seen versions of it crash under the same circumstances
on OSX, Windows and linux. I've seen it get in a pane resize fight with
mozilla, and I've seen it as the primary user of CPU on a system where
it isn't even displaying a document. If adobe doesn't want to do the
minor work involved to make it play with Solaris X86, we shouldn't make
acroread the default browser for sparc either. This would simplify our
support and IMHO would give our customers a better product. If there
are document incompatibilities, lets find them now.
Another advantage of evince is that it is possible in the future that
this same application could also render microsoft's new PDF alike.
Bruno S. Delbono wrote:
Propose the OPDF, or Open Portable Document Format and try to get the
industry to move away from the proprietary and not at all portable
document format.
What about using linux emul (whatever else it's being called these days)
for running the Acrobat binary unmodified?
I know the other BSD's are using something similar to run linux
binaries...
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Bruno Delbono
Open-Systems Group
http://www.open-systems.org/users/bruno/
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