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- From: joop.vandeWege@medew.ento.wau.nl (Joop van de Wege)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: We've got web browsers, HotJava (someday), how about PDF?
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:27:31 LOCAL
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- In article <19960123.7476060.FCC7@contessa.phone.net> mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer) writes:
- >From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
- >Subject: Re: We've got web browsers, HotJava (someday), how about PDF?
- >Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 17:09:59 PST
-
- >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.
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- :>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
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- Sorry to quote the whole article but leaving out bits and pieces would have
- been worse
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- Have a look at Aminet RECENT and grab Ghostscript 3.53 port to the Amiga
- It will display PDF files :)
- One warning: if possible DON'T use GS_FONTPATH but use FontMap exclusively.!
-
- About adding it to postscript.datatype is not up to me but you should ask
- Heinz Wrobel. There is a X11 pdf viewer which is far more simple then GS to
- use for datatypes.
- xpdf source is about 200K and GS is about 3M (level 1/2 & PDF)
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- Joop
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