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- ReadMe1st
- =========
-
- The original xpdf README file is in this archive, as README.
-
- NOTE: This archive does not contain the complete source to the xpdf-0.5
- package as distributed by the original author (Derek Noonburg
- <derekn@ece.cmu.edu>) To obtain the complete original source you should
- look at:
-
- WWW: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dn0o/xpdf/xpdf.html
- FTP: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/xpdf/
-
- Thanks are due to Derek for permission to distribute the modified sources and
- just the pdftops part of his package.
-
- pdftops
- =======
-
- This is a RISC OS port of a tool which converts Adobe(R) Portable
- Document Format (PDF) files into PostScript(R) files.
-
- It is command line only. It also requires the `gzip' program from !GZip
- (package b051 from HENSA and its mirrors) to be copied into your Library
- directory (or somewhere else on the default path).
-
- You also require RiScript (package c079 on HENSA) plus patches from Chris
- Poole, available at HENSA once the latest changes are added to the archive
- (the last modified date in 31 May 96 as I write this, so if its changed
- from that, then it's there), or direct from:
-
- ftp://triton.chu.cam.ac.uk/pub/riscript/
-
-
- WARNING: RiScript is not exactly blistering at rendering the PostScript.
- Some of the ARM documents on www.arm.com took 5 minutes or longer to render
- per page :-(
-
- But it's a start - and you may even prefer to print the PostScript
- documents straight off, rather than view them on the screen.
-
- I do *NOT* envisage this project continuing very much further. If further
- versions of xpdf are released, then I *MAY* decide to do the Acorn port of
- them. It is purposefully a stopgap solution. It isn't perfect. It
- works OK for me.
-
- Rebuilding it
- =============
-
- This requires Acorn C/C++ with Cupdate1.
-
- Build the stuff in the goo directory first
- Then build the stuff in the xpdf directory
-
- --
- Stewart Brodie
- 11th June 1996
-