Re: Is Adode Acrobat reader is avl. for Linux ?

["Ravikant K. Rao" <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hey,
    check this out

ravi@pronto:~$ dpkg --print-avail acroread
Package: acroread
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/text
Installed-Size: 12493
Maintainer: Klee Dienes <klee@xxxxxxxxxx>
Architecture: i386
Version: 4.0-1
Provides: pdf-viewer, postscript-preview
Depends: ldso (>= 1.9.7-0), libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), libc6, xlib6 (>= 3.3-0)
Recommends: mime-support
Suggests: netscape-base-4 (>= 13) | netscape | mozilla | netscape4 (>= 4.0-15) | netscape3 (>= 3.04-8)
Filename: dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/text/acroread_4.0-1.deb
Size: 5021098
MD5sum: 47b28f7589caf46e660467678951dd24
Description: Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Document Format file viewer.
 A viewer for the Adobe portable document format.
 See <http://www.adobe.com/> for more information.

ravi@pronto:~$ 


ravi@pronto:~$ dpkg --print-avail xpdf
Package: xpdf
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 2676
Maintainer: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@xxxxxxxxxx>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.90-4
Replaces: xpdf-i
Provides: pdf-viewer, postscript-preview
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), libstdc++2.10, libxpm4, t1lib1, xlib6g (>= 3.3.5-1)
Conflicts: xpdf-i
Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/text/xpdf_0.90-4.deb
Size: 970282
MD5sum: 87f9cb06469ebe2792f85a023a73f639
Description: Portable Document Format viewer for X11
 xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are
 sometimes called 'Acrobat' files after the name of Adobe's PDF software.)
 xpdf is designed to be small and efficient.  It does not use the Motif or
 Xt libraries.  It uses standard X fonts.  A program for conversion from
 pdf into ps, pdftops, is also included.

ravi@pronto:~$ 


-- ravi

On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 04:23:07PM +0530, M K Saravanan wrote:
> hi,
> 
>   I tried to read some of the recent PDF in "gv".  It is not coming
> perfectly.  Is adobe is providing its acrobat reader for linux platform?
> 
> 
> -- mks
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