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- From: fredie@churchill (Fredie.Layberger)
- Subject: Re: We've got web browsers, HotJava (someday), how about PDF?
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- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:46:07 GMT
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- ejack@user1.channel1.com (Eric D. Jackson) writes:
- : >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?
- :
- : >-Fred
- : There is a datatype for PDF. Maybe that's what it's called, I'm not sure of
- : the name. Install that and if necessary, configure your mime.types and
- : mailcaps file if your using either Amosaic or Ibrowse. I know I found some in
- : my Cache or T directory. I didn't realize when I was viewing them online that
- : they were PDF but they can be read on your Amiga, I think.
- : Eric D. Jackson <ejack@user1.channel1.com>
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- Eric,
-
- Are you sure that you were viewing .pdf files on-line? Adobe has just recently
- released a viewer (Amber) that can be used to view .pdf files on-line a page
- at a time. Before Amber, you had to download the file and view it with Acrobat
- as a helper app. Where did you find the .pdf datatype? I would like to get it.
- Thanks...fred
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