Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:04:29 -0400, John Hupp wrote: > I'd like help figuring out the best available > provision for viewing PDF files under FreeDOS > and perhaps with Arachne. > The XPDF project seems nearly ideal. It > provides for converting PDF's with images to > HTML, but there does not seem to be a DOS > port of that work. > I know of two Arachne plug-ins: PDFHTM.APM > and XPDF091.APM. Both render to text only. > Both only seem to work off-line: You download > a PDF and then locate and open them with a > file:// URL protocol. Both are based on XPDF > v2.0. Anyone know if they work equally well? > Anyone know how to edit MIME.CFG so they work > on-line to open a PDF when you click its link? > Anyone have a better suggestion? http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/apm/ara-pdf.apm After installing this APM, save any downloaded PDF files to disk and then link to that saved copy of the PDF The included copy of Ghost script v5.10 converts the PDF to BMP files (one for each page), and PDF2HTM (written by Joerg Dietze), makes a framed HTML file to link to each of those BMPs -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --