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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
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- Subject: Re: Post Script or AcroRead PDF viewer ?
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 10:37:09 GMT
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- mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) wrote:
- >Eric@wolf359.exile.org (Eric Edwards) writes:
- >
- >>No, there are no acrobat readers for amiga. I guess is that there will
- >>probably never be an acrobat reader for Amiga. The format Adobe
- >>propritary and, AFAIK, unpublished.
- >
- >Welll...
- >
- >There's this nice Portable Document Format Reference Manual,
- >ISBN 0-201-62628-4. It covers PDF 1.0.
- >
- >PDF is subject to the LZW patent though.
-
- The Acrobat Reader is a free product and unsupported, so don`t go asking Adobe
- any questions about the reader either. They want you to use PDF files though. I
- think the reason for the non-appearace of the Amiga version is simply that of
- platform popularity. It takes a lot of horsepower to decode a PDF quickly,
- AFAIK. The Mac version demands an 020 or faster (040 recommended).
-
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