[arachne] ARA-PDF.APM under FreeDOS 1.0 and Arachne 1.90J1

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Under Arachne 1.90JG and FreeDOS 0.9 SR2, Glenn McCorkle's revised ARA-PDF plug-in was working nicely to allow me to open most PDF's online or offline from my hard drive.

But now under a fresh installation of the new FreeDOS 1.0 and the new Arachne1.90J1, then installing ARA-PDF, I no longer find that it works either for online or offline PDF's. (My previous test case was http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf which was a nice example of a somewhat newer PDF format, circa 1998.)

Anyone know what the issue could be?

The only straw I have to offer in terms of my own thoughts is that the new FreeDOS does not bundle CWSDPMI, but a variant DPMI that works better for some applications. But I have no idea if ARA-PDF, GhostScript or Arachne make use of that.

Perhaps someone could also clarify for me: Previously a separate installation of GhostScript (of a certain flavor specified by Glenn) needed to be installed at C:\GS, but Glenn's new package seems to install its own GS in a sub-directory under C:\ARACHNE.

--John Hupp

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