On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 said:
Bayard>
Bayard> Bob Sparks asked:
Bayard>
Bayard> I know that some systems can read these formats, but "they"
Bayard> need to thrash it with Microslop Word.
Bayard>
Bayard> Answer:
Bayard>
Bayard> Well, not exactly...
Bayard>
Bayard> You can get a free PDF reader for Linux from Adobe (who are the
Bayard> folks who own PDF). But, editing a PDF document appears to be the
Bayard> key question, and that will cost money, and it's unclear that there
Bayard> is a product to create PDF documents available from Adobe - at
Bayard> least they don't show one. Their web page is:
Bayard>
Bayard> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/main.html
Bayard>
Bayard> HTH,
Bayard>
[... snip ...]
They were playing with a Framemaker for Linux (the Beta test version worked
ok too from what I could see), but they abandoned it at the end of the year
claiming too little interest in their email, but I'm not sure what that
really meant.
The last web site I saw on the matter was:
http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/fmlinux.html
D. Roberts
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