[Coco] Free OS-9 Documentation!!!

[Brian Blake]

Okay, I just upgraded from Adobe Reader 6.0 to 7 and still get no text after page 2.


Brian

----- Original Message ----
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:38:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Free OS-9 Documentation!!!

On Saturday 24 February 2007, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
>At 06:05 PM 2/24/2007 -0500, John Murphy wrote:
>>6.0x of the Reader *is* very old.
>>The current version of the Reader is 8.0x.
>>The old versions were recently *patched* to eliminate a severe security
>>vulnerabilty.
>>It's been six weeks since the vuln was fixed, not since  version 6 was
>>released.
>
>At least they're patching. I loathe anything Adobe, so until they're
>updater says my version won't work anymore, it'll stay there.
>
>But that doesn't address the original problem. Ghostview also doesn't
> see anything past the first few pages, nor does Pagemaker (the original
> document creator).
>
>Dennis

What you may be running into is that the document contains some PDL-3.0 
functions (Postscript Description Language) extensions, and I guarantee 
your old version won't deal with it, and neither did xpdf until about 6 
months ago.  Now it all Just Works(TM), and its a free download, so why 
not update?  I don't think the winderz version has the startup script bug 
the linux version has & we've fixed.

Ghostview, (I don't have it installed even, but I do have kghostview, 
which another animal entirely) in fairly recent versions, doesn't do 
pdf's at all, Dennis, unless the launching script is smart enough (and it 
probably is) to tell the difference between a .ps file and a .pdf file.  
If its a .ps, call gs to render, if its a .pdf, call xpdf to render.  
That pdf code has been stripped out of gs and re-used in xpdf and 
friends.  My gs is currently at 8.15.3 and only does postscript, complete 
with all current extensions to that language.

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