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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Post Script or AcroRead PDF viewer ?
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 13:23:02 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- Paul Chan <paul> writes:
-
- >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).
-
- Sort of. PDF uses the Postscript rendering model. So you better have
- a Postscript engine and Postscript typefaces. It does not require a
- full Postscript interpreter though.
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- Michael van Elst
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