[gentoo-dev] last rites: app-text/acroread

[gentoo-dev] last rites: app-text/acroread

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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In addition it doesn't start anymore (segv somewhere). 30 more days, then it's 
finally gone.

# Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> (19 Feb 2017)
# Dead upstream for >3 years. Closed source. Bundles outdated
# libraries that certainly have known security issues (e.g.,
# icu-36 (!) or curl). Use at your own risk.
app-text/acroread
media-fonts/acroread-asianfonts


-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: app-text/acroread

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> media-fonts/acroread-asianfonts

Is it also due to security issues? :D

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: app-text/acroread

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

RIP acroread.

The only PDF reader on linux that can properly parse PDF Reference XObjects.

Thou shall be missed.

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: app-text/acroread

[Matthew Thode]

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On 06/08/2017 07:17 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> RIP acroread.
> 
> The only PDF reader on linux that can properly parse PDF Reference XObjects.
> 
> Thou shall be missed.
> 

I'm not sure if it works, but qpdfview is the best alternative that I've
found so far.

-- 
Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)



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Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: app-text/acroread

[Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn]

Jason A. Donenfeld schrieb:
> RIP acroread.
>
> The only PDF reader on linux that can properly parse PDF Reference XObjects.
>
> Thou shall be missed.
>

I found the Chrome PDF reader (pdfium) to be a somewhat adequate 
replacement. pdfium recently gained the ability to deal with XFA forms, 
which are unsupported by most other PDF readers on Linux.

Alternatively you can use Wine to run the Windows version.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn