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

Before installing ARA-PDF, I had already copied C:\GS from the successful old 
installation (which had been downloaded from your site at 
http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/apm/gs705dos.zip), so that piece was in place.  
Now I have even copied over the successful old installation of 1.90JG (with 
ARA-PDF installed), and PDF viewing still fails.

On the face of it, it seems that the only other things that have changed are 
the hardware platform and the FreeDOS installation (except that the successful 
old Arachne installation may have also had a few other plug-ins installed).  
There have been 2-3 months of FreeDOS updates separating the two installations.

If a FreeDOS file is the source of the difficulty, how can I troubleshoot to 
locate the problem?  The GS error file referenced by Arachne is empty.

Glenn, do you (or anyone else here) know how to use C:\GS as a freestanding PDF 
viewer (which would be nice to know on its own merits), or otherwise run the 
requisite GS operations outside of Arachne?  It would be helpful to know if 
this was a Ghostscript issue or an Arachne issue.

Anyone successfully using Arachne with ARA-PDF under FreeDOS 1.0?

--John Hupp

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Glenn McCorkle 
To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; arachne4dos@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:52 PM
Subject: [arachne] Re: ARA-PDF.APM under FreeDOS 1.0 and Arachne 1.90J1


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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:34:35 -0400, John Hupp wrote:

> 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


To save the need of downloading a 5meg AMP all the time,
GS is no longer included within ara-pdf.apm

The instructions in ara-pdf.apm now read as follows.......


'PDF2HTM' Converts .PDF files into BMPs
(one for each page of the PDF), 
These BMPs are then viewed in Arachne via the generated HTM file. 
This plugin requires GhostScript v7.05 (not included) 
Download GS here.<--- link to gs705dos.zip
(requires 12megs of free disk space) 
Unzip to drive C: with this command....
pkunzip -d gs705dos.zip c:\ 
(must be on drive C: to work correctly) 


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