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

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Following up on my own post --

I have tried many more possibilities, all without success:
1) I created a boot disk with the previous version of FreeDOS (and the updates I had installed).
2) I moved everything to a FAT16 disk to see if FreeDOS FAT32 support was at issue.
3) I tried fresh downloads of ARA-PDF and GS705DOS, and tried several combinations of a previous ARA-PDF that includes GS and the current one that does not.
4) I tried Arachne 1.90JG and 1.90J1.

I must be missing something somewhere .....

ARA-PDF does not have a dependency on some other plug-in, does it (just GS 7.05 at C:\GS, right?)?

--John Hupp

----- Original Message ----- From: John Hupp
To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:58 AM
Subject: [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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