Re: Help with PDF files

[xray@cs.brandeis.edu (Nathan G. Raymond)]

dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
>
>In article <DvEEDL.1Cx@news.hawaii.edu>, Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W. wrote:
>
>>I don't know of a way you can read .pdf files on a GS.  These are Adobe
>>Acrobat format, I think.
>
>Yep.  Reading PDF (Acrobat) files requires a rather large application on
>the Mac (Acrobat Reader itself is over 800K, and the whole thing takes up
>about 2.5MB once you include the add-on files and documentation).
>
>That is rather a lot of code to port to the IIgs, and the end product
>would have to deal with the rather limited screen resolution of the IIgs.
>
>Now there's an idea - a PDF viewer which can use the extra resolution of
>the Second Sight.  (User interface would be a problem, until the QuickDraw
>patches are available.)

The real problem is not the screen resolution, but that Adobe's Portable
Document Format (PDF) files rely on Adobe's Multiple Master font
technology, which requires the latest version of Adobe Type Manager (ATM)
and the appropriate MM fonts.  This isn't going to happen on the IIgs.
Better just to print out the documents from a Mac or PC.

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