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Re: Acrobat Reader in debian

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From: Tzafrir Cohen
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:38
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On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 08:40:22PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <4A359636.4090008@gmail.com>, J.Hwan.Kim wrote:
> >I'm using KGHOSTVIEW and EVINCE for PDF viewer,
> >but some characters of my country language is broken.
> >However, Acrobat Reader in Windows displays well.

Whose bug is it? poppler?

> >
> >Is there Acrobat Reader package for Debian?
>
> Pursuant to the Debian Social Contract (http://debian.org/social_contract),
> no.  You might find a package in non-free or at debian-multimedia.org.

It also has a relatively poor security record. I figure you're advised
not to make it your default PDF reader.

>
> Of course, it probably won't help since your problem is, most likely, fonts.

Fonts are normally embedded in PDF documents.

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