[arachne] Best PDF provision - a fresh summary

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This is a fresh statement of my PDF question and difficulties to date. But I imagine that some of you could resolve this with no difficulty.

Is anyone viewing PDF files *with images* under DOS (I'm using FreeDOS)?

I understand that some implementation of Ghostscript is the way to go, but so far I haven't been able to get it to work.

I also understand that there are a couple of Ghostscript GUI's for DOS (PSView/PS_View and one other usually mentioned second), but these rely on a working command-line installation.

I understand further that there is an Arachne plug-in that will rely on a working Ghostscript installation, but so far I don't know what it's called or where to find it.

More on the Ghostscript distros:

Aladdin/GNU Ghostscript v5.10 is supposed to be outdated in some respect (video support?) and I have failed with it so far.

There is more than one v7.05 distro out there, at least some of which are not complete but rely on a basic installation from another distro. (Patrice Lemonnier, that seemed to be the case with yours!) Documentation seems inadequate, and in any case, I haven't succeeded with it yet.

In short, I've been flailing around a lot with no results. So it would be nice if a successful user said "Go download this version of Ghostscript from here, unzip it there, and use this syntax to load a PDF. And then for PS_View, go here, etc. Now get this Arachne APM ..."

Anyone ready, willing, and able?

--John Hupp

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