Re: PDF Files

[modus-dejanews@pr.es.to (Patrick Michael Kane)]

On 25 Jul 1998 17:26:45 GMT, Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>Gabriel Morales <Togega@concentric.net> wrote:
>
>>Is there any software that can display PDFs on the Apple IIGS? Is there
>>anyone working on such a project? THIS would be VERY useful software for the
>>Apple II/IIGS. Maybe if we show enough support, and willingness to buy the
>>final product, we could convince Adobe to create such software for the Apple
>>II/IIGS. Ideas, thoughts?
>
>Probably not Adobe.  I doubt they remember the IIGS.
>
>However, Adobe might be willing to release the specifications of .pdf.
>It might be possible to write a program to extract the text and graphics
>from .pdf files.

There are a number of freely available PDF viewers, which one could
conceivably port.  PDF isn't too friendly to low-memory machines, though.
-- 
Patrick Michael Kane
<modus-dejanews@pr.es.to>