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- From: Richard Lavey <richard@startide.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: We've got web browsers, HotJava (someday), how about PDF?
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 20:33:19 GMT
- Organization: Home in Bucks,UK
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- Fred Hamilton (fredh@galaxy.nsc.com) led us to believe
- in <fredh-2301961252220001@fhamilton.nsc.com> that...
- > 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.
-
- > So has anyone heard word of any developments in this area?
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- The latest release of Ghostscript is supposed to be able to view PDF as
- well as PS files. Check Aminet (the latest version was only announced last
- week sometime !)
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