print/acroread9 Adobe Reader

[Julian H. Stacey]

Guido Falsi wrote:
> On 10/28/14 15:22, 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?  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.
> > 
> 
> Meybe wine can help?
> 
> Also virtualbox + some other OS which is supported by adobe?
> 
> I agree these are no optimal solutions but could solve the problem at hand.

Thanks Guido,
Yes, in future years, I may have to, If Adobe really drops/ has
dropped Unix, & If/when FreeBSD ABIs become incompatible with the
Linux binaries. 

However that would be horrible work, installing an MS partition
just for Adobe reader.

While ABIS remain compatible, I will prefer to use acroread, even if I have
to migrate forward & maintain the last acroread port myself.

Cheers,
Julian
-- 
Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com
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