Re: Help with PDF files

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4tnqtf$q12@Holly.aa.net>, Willis <wpoole@aa.net> wrote:
>RyanM.Suenaga wrote:
>: I don't know of a way you can read .pdf files on a GS.  These are Adobe
>: Acrobat format, I think.

>Hi Ryan! Good to see a familiar face and be greeted like in my Genie days
>vs the Net..big difference. You are correct they are Adobe files..but
>knowing we can do anything on our GS's it didn't hurt to ask. :)

   Given that we really don't have a software postscript emulator,
this would probably be a real pain to pull off.

>What would it take to read these a Mac or a I*M? They dlded as askii files
>in txt form but I can't convert them to anything readable...ideas?

   Visit www.adobe.com and download their "free" PDF viewer/reader for
mac, windoze, and a few unixes. [But not Linux, which bites.] Did I
need to mention that they're not passing out source code so you can't
port them over?

   The only hope is the 'xpdf' program started a while back that's a
unix program to read and display PDF files. It wasn't perfect or
anywhere near done when I checked a while back, but it did have source
code if you really want to try porting it over. [Oh yeah, be prepared
to rip out and translate all the XWindows calls, and deal with all
other sorts of fun porting issued.]

Nathan Mate

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