CV>Glenn McCorkle wrote:
CV>>
CV>> ftp://ftp.foolabs.com:21/pub/xpdf/xpdf-0.90-dos.zip
CV>> might work as a PDF veiwer "plug-in" for Arachne.
CV>Hi Glenn, Mike;
CV>If I may comment here, I have downloaded the above and it is my
CV>opinion that by itself, it performs NO useful functions in DOS.
YMMV. :)
I find PDFTOTEX invaluable. With List it allows me to read pdf
documents very quickly in DOS without having to load windoze and
start Acrobat.
PDFIMAGE extracts the images from pdf files if required.
PDFTOPS would print them if only I had a PS printer.
(As an aside... does anyone know of a DOS ps-to-pcl (laser) convertor prog?)
CV>Aside from the annoying 12+ character directory name the author wants,
CV>it has been written for "X" windows and requires a LOT of support
What 12+ char. dirname? My files live in \xpdf.
All 4 utilities (pdftotex, pdfimage, pdftops & pdfinfo) run perfectly
on my msdos 6.22 486 box.
CV>Even when trying the seemingly simple pdf to text converter
CV>it wanted me to download a DPMI.
Run the standard version, not the 386+ version.
It might not be useful as an Arachne plug-in but as a utility I
think it's invaluable.
Mike
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