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Steve,
Ooops, yes, I failed to mention Unix or Linux.
Primary reason is simple enough though...most of
the current work on Arachne has been on DOS version.
So I sort of targeted my response in that direction.
I use the old DOS port of XPDF to convert some PDFs
to plain text myself. However, there have been a
few that don't convert well since they have lots
more images. In Win 95, I've only got Acrobat
Reader version 3.2, and it runs into problems with
displaying fonts. Foxit doesn't seem to have this
problem.
Anyway, thanks for the heads up in regards to "nix"!
C U L8R!
Wiz
(currently in MS DOS 6.22, using NuPop)
In message Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:50:42 -0400 (EDT),
Steve <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:
>
>
>> The only real
>> solution is to use more recent versions of Windows or maybe Mac.
>>
>
> I'm not using Windows or Mac, yet I manage to read the very latest PDF
> files. (Guess you forgot about the several hundreds of 'nix
> distributions)
>
> Frankly, I run across very few pdfs that actually need acroreader 7
> (though I do have it installed for such rare occasions), since even
> xpdf-3.01 can read version 1.6 PDFs (at least xpdf-3.01_3 can read the
> only 1.6 presently in /tmp:
>
> $ for i in /tmp/*.[Pp][Dd][Ff]; do file $i; done
> /tmp/44142.PDF: PDF document, version 1.4
> /tmp/91811-1.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3
> /tmp/91811.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3
> /tmp/Consequences.PDF: PDF document, version 1.4
> /tmp/Details2.pdf: PDF document, version 1.6
> /tmp/ElCrucerito.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4
> /tmp/FeeSchedule_4_9_06.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3
> /tmp/M1017_m.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4
> /tmp/NyambeneCoffeeEstates.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3
> /tmp/PlateGame.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3
> /tmp/SherlineLathe.pdf: PDF document, version 1.2
> /tmp/doverdownload.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4
> /tmp/focus-0001_2001-06a.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3
> /tmp/roof_flashing.pdf: PDF document, version 1.2
> /tmp/scuba_quick_connect_to_sae_j1926_adapter.pdf: PDF document, version
> 1.4 /tmp/team3report.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4
> /tmp/tires_filling.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4
> /tmp/valed.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4
> /tmp/vehicle.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3
>
> If my /tmp directory is representative at all of what's "out there"
> then it would appear that PDF-1.4 is the most common by a fair margin.
> If you say "1.4 or earlier" then you've got 95% covered.
>
>
>> Foxit
>> does a decent job of displaying PDFs though, and is much smaller and
>> less resource hungry than Adobe's Acrobat Reader.
>>
>
> xpdf uses ~9% the RAM that Acroreader7 uses. (Remember, I used to use
> xpdf on a K5-75 w/8MB RAM.)
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