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Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 3:59 PM
Subject: [REBOL] User Guide in PDF 8) Re:(4)
> On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > But the problem with PDF is that acrobat reader is not available for all
> > platforms. I only know of 2, Windows and Mac (or is it out for Linux
> > too?).
>
> How about 15? I checked Adobe's web site when this thread got started,
> and Adobe has readers out for most mainstream OSs, and many obsoleted
> ones. All flavours of Windows from 3.1 onward, PPC and 68k Macs, Linux,
> AIX, SunOS, Sparc Solaris, x86 Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, Digital Unix, and
> OS/2 Warp. The only two missing are FreeBSD (which could run under the
> Linux emulation module) and the Amiga. I'd say Adobe has done a fairly
> good job of covering their bases.
>
> So my A2000 doesn't get called in to read PDFs. It does a lot of other
> stuff very well, but I am lucky to also have a Linux box that I can
> switch to for reading PDFs.
>
> Bring on the PDF docs! ;-)
> Cheers,
> Kev
My next project will involve realtime conversion of database output to pdf..
So I will probably
come up with a standard text to pdf converter for REBOL which I'll post to the
group when finished.
Just starting to read/learn the pdf specs manual now 500 + pages.
Cheers,
Allen K
