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- From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: We've got web browsers, HotJava (someday), how about PDF?
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 16:33:56 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960123.76A9F98.F3CC@contessa.phone.net>
- References: <fredh-2301961252220001@fhamilton.nsc.com>
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- In <fredh-2301961252220001@fhamilton.nsc.com>, fredh@galaxy.nsc.com (Fred Hamilton) wrote:
- > It seems like an Adobe Acrobat file reader is the major Amiga web piece that
- > I haven't seen mention of yet. I don't know how many other web users are
- > running into it, but acrobat documents seem to be all over the place. I
- > don't know if PDF will continue to be as popular as it is today (many
- > documents are in PDF form solely because it's easier to convert to than
- > straight HTML), but it sure would be useful to be able view them on my
- > AMiga.
-
- The developers of ghostscript have (are working on?) enhanced it to
- display PDF files. Are any of the people who did the original
- ghostscript ports still doing Amiga work? If so, that's the logical
- place to start. If not, contacting them for sources and/or diff
- listings before tackling it yourself would be a good idea.
-
- Of course, adding it to postscript.library (and hence to
- postscript.datatype) would be even nicer.
-
- <mike
-