Adobe Acrobat Reader

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While discovering some old Atmel cd just found supplyed Adobe Acrobat Reader
distributions:

…/macintosh:
total 11114
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5675846 Feb 17 14:47 ar40eng.sit.hqx
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5750 Feb 17 14:47 ar40eng.txt
…/unix:
total 157932
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 6615686 Feb 17 14:47
acrdsrch_aix_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 7190565 Feb 17 14:48
acrdsrch_hpux_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 8051975 Feb 17 14:48
acrdsrch_irix_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 7383882 Feb 17 14:48
acrdsrch_osf_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 7318440 Feb 17 14:48
acrdsrch_solaris_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 8259163 Feb 17 14:48
acrdsrch_sunos_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 4590291 Feb 17 14:48
acroread_aix_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 4990479 Feb 17 14:48
acroread_hpux_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5703137 Feb 17 14:48
acroread_irix_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 4926741 Feb 17 14:49
acroread_linux_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 4984367 Feb 17 14:49
acroread_osf_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5374049 Feb 17 14:49
acroread_solaris_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5460471 Feb 17 14:49
acroread_sunos_301.tar.Z
…/windows:
total 21339
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5455526 Feb 17 14:49 ar40eng.exe
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5380 Feb 17 14:49 ar40eng.txt
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5455526 Feb 17 14:49 rs32e301.exe

Just wondering why so important line a’la…

-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1234567 Feb 17 14:49
acroread_qrtp_301.tar.Z

…is missing :slight_smile: Any chances to convice Adobe to port Acrobat Reader under
QRTP ? What should be done for this ?

// wbr

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ghostscript/ghostview can read pdf files as well.
haven’t tried xpdf.
frank

Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@mail.ru> wrote:

While discovering some old Atmel cd just found supplyed Adobe Acrobat Reader
distributions:

./macintosh:
total 11114
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5675846 Feb 17 14:47 ar40eng.sit.hqx
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5750 Feb 17 14:47 ar40eng.txt
./unix:
total 157932
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 6615686 Feb 17 14:47
acrdsrch_aix_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 7190565 Feb 17 14:48
acrdsrch_hpux_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 8051975 Feb 17 14:48
acrdsrch_irix_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 7383882 Feb 17 14:48
acrdsrch_osf_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 7318440 Feb 17 14:48
acrdsrch_solaris_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 8259163 Feb 17 14:48
acrdsrch_sunos_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 4590291 Feb 17 14:48
acroread_aix_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 4990479 Feb 17 14:48
acroread_hpux_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5703137 Feb 17 14:48
acroread_irix_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 4926741 Feb 17 14:49
acroread_linux_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 4984367 Feb 17 14:49
acroread_osf_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5374049 Feb 17 14:49
acroread_solaris_301.tar.Z
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5460471 Feb 17 14:49
acroread_sunos_301.tar.Z
./windows:
total 21339
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5455526 Feb 17 14:49 ar40eng.exe
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5380 Feb 17 14:49 ar40eng.txt
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5455526 Feb 17 14:49 rs32e301.exe

Just wondering why so important line a’la…

-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1234567 Feb 17 14:49
acroread_qrtp_301.tar.Z

…is missing > :slight_smile: > Any chances to convice Adobe to port Acrobat Reader under
QRTP ? What should be done for this ?

// wbr

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<fliu@spamme.com> wrote in message news:a4p86h$c6l$1@inn.qnx.com…

ghostscript/ghostview can read pdf files as well.
haven’t tried xpdf.

Thank you, i know :slight_smile: But what about Adobe Acrobat Reader ? IMHO it’s a way
better and usable then xpdf + ghoscript all together…

frank

// wbr

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Ian Zagorskih wrote:


Just wondering why so important line a’la…

-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1234567 Feb 17 14:49
acroread_qrtp_301.tar.Z

…is missing > :slight_smile: > Any chances to convice Adobe to port Acrobat Reader under
QRTP ?

Perhaps by writing Adobe, and pointing out to them that the “P” in pdf
is for portable, and if you can’t get the reader on your platform.
Also, ask them how they substantiate their use of this (well understood)
terminology, when there are many platforms that they don’t support ?

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Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@mail.ru> wrote:

Thank you, i know > :slight_smile: > But what about Adobe Acrobat Reader ? IMHO it’s a way
better and usable then xpdf + ghoscript all together…

You only can display and print PDF’s with the Acrobat Reader, but
there are many more feature in ‘ghostscript’ … such as converting PS
to PDF and v.v., create lots of graphic formats as output, not to
mention the support of almost all printers, I’ve ever used (you can
even still print graphics on a 9-pin IBM Graphics Printer :slight_smile: ).

–

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<Karsten.Hoffmann@mbs-software.de> wrote in message
news:a4ssrv$5h7$1@mbs-software.de…

Ian Zagorskih <> ianzag@mail.ru> > wrote:

Thank you, i know > :slight_smile: > But what about Adobe Acrobat Reader ? IMHO it’s a
way
better and usable then xpdf + ghoscript all together…

– flame on :slight_smile:

You only can display and print PDF’s with the Acrobat Reader,

I only need to display and print PDF’s :slight_smile:
When i need to create PDF’s i use M$ Word/Visio + Adobe Acrobat and it works
perfect. But that’s another story…

but there are many more feature in ‘ghostscript’ …
such as converting PS to PDF and v.v.,

…i don’t need to deal with documents in PS format. really…

create lots of graphic formats as output

…i don’t need to export PDF’s into anything else…

not to mention the support of almost all printers

…mine win2k support all available for me printers [really don’t care how]
…

I’ve ever used (you can even still print graphics on a 9-pin IBM Graphics
Printer > :slight_smile: > ).

…last time i saw matrix Epson was 6 years ago and hope i’ll never see it
again…

…so today Adobe Acrobat Reader under windows 2000 works perfect for me. It
just displays PDFs with good quality and same prints them on mine HP
LaserJet 2100. I believe that maybe some better tools are avaibale for this
tasks. But AAR already does it good for me so i just don’t need them and
don’t want to use them :slight_smile:

– flame off

Also, i don’t like/believe into free software targeted to commercial tasks.

–

| / | __ ) | > Karsten.Hoffmann@mbs-software.de > MBS-GmbH
| |/| | _ _ \ Phone : +49-2151-7294-38 Karsten Hoffmann
| | | | |) |__) | Fax : +49-2151-7294-50 Roemerstrasse 15
|| ||// Mobile: +49-172-3812373 D-47809 Krefeld

// wbr

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Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@mail.ru> wrote:

ghostscript/ghostview can read pdf files as well.
haven’t tried xpdf.

Thank you, i know > :slight_smile: > But what about Adobe Acrobat Reader ? IMHO it’s a way
better and usable then xpdf + ghoscript all together…

if you have some example pdf files that work in acrobat reader but not
ghostscript, I’d like to know. I can forward this onto the developers
and I am sure they will welcome the opportunity to fix it.

frank

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<fliu@bb.vipstage.com> wrote in message news:a4tost$n0f$1@inn.qnx.com…

Ian Zagorskih <> ianzag@mail.ru> > wrote:

ghostscript/ghostview can read pdf files as well.
haven’t tried xpdf.

Thank you, i know > :slight_smile: > But what about Adobe Acrobat Reader ? IMHO it’s a
way
better and usable then xpdf + ghoscript all together…

if you have some example pdf files that work in acrobat reader but not
ghostscript, I’d like to know. I can forward this onto the developers
and I am sure they will welcome the opportunity to fix it.

frank

Sure. If you’r interesting please check
ftp://194.149.227.98/work/images/gsv_aar Some pages arn’t rendered by GSV at
all, some rendered but quality could be a way better. Seems like GSV dosn’t
use TTF fonts at all :-/

Versions are: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 and GSview 2.1. If frankly i’m not
sure if this is the latest version of GSV so maybe this problems have been
fixed in newer GSV.

// wbr

9

Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@mail.ru> wrote:

Sure. If you’r interesting please check
ftp://194.149.227.98/work/images/gsv_aar > Some pages arn’t rendered by GSV at
all, some rendered but quality could be a way better. Seems like GSV dosn’t
use TTF fonts at all :-/

Versions are: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 and GSview 2.1. If frankly i’m not
sure if this is the latest version of GSV so maybe this problems have been
fixed in newer GSV.

I just downloaded 3 pdf files and one postscript file from your ftp site ,
I can view of them fine on my linux box with
[fliu@beta test]$ gv -v
gv 3.5.8
[fliu@beta test]$ gs --version
6.51
(both came as default with the redhat 7.2).

(I don’t know what are those big *.bmp files on your ftp site).

Maybe I didn’t read carefully page by page, line by line. Can you
tell me which pdf file, which page, which line you are having problems?
I will then confirm it again with my display.

Frank

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fliu@bb.vipstage.com wrote:

Ian Zagorskih <> ianzag@mail.ru> > wrote:

Sure. If you’r interesting please check
ftp://194.149.227.98/work/images/gsv_aar > Some pages arn’t rendered by GSV at
all, some rendered but quality could be a way better. Seems like GSV dosn’t
use TTF fonts at all :-/

Versions are: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 and GSview 2.1. If frankly i’m not
sure if this is the latest version of GSV so maybe this problems have been
fixed in newer GSV.

I just downloaded 3 pdf files and one postscript file from your ftp site ,
I can view of them fine on my linux box with
[fliu@beta test]$ gv -v
gv 3.5.8
[fliu@beta test]$ gs --version
6.51
(both came as default with the redhat 7.2).

(I don’t know what are those big *.bmp files on your ftp site).

Maybe I didn’t read carefully page by page, line by line. Can you
tell me which pdf file, which page, which line you are having problems?
I will then confirm it again with my display.

just tried xpdf 1.0 (rpm downloaded from rawhide) on my redhat 7.2.
no problem viewing those pdf files either.

frank

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<fliu@bb.vipstage.com> wrote in message news:a4u2pd$1eq$1@inn.qnx.com…

Ian Zagorskih <> ianzag@mail.ru> > wrote:

Sure. If you’r interesting please check
ftp://194.149.227.98/work/images/gsv_aar > Some pages arn’t rendered by
GSV at
all, some rendered but quality could be a way better. Seems like GSV
dosn’t
use TTF fonts at all :-/

Versions are: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 and GSview 2.1. If frankly i’m
not
sure if this is the latest version of GSV so maybe this problems have
been
fixed in newer GSV.

I just downloaded 3 pdf files and one postscript file from your ftp site ,
I can view of them fine on my linux box with
[fliu@beta test]$ gv -v
gv 3.5.8
[fliu@beta test]$ gs --version
6.51
(both came as default with the redhat 7.2).

Your versions are sligltly newer :slight_smile: I used first available and seems like
they were too old.

(I don’t know what are those big *.bmp files on your ftp site).

Screenshots in form .bmp :slight_smile: I compressed them into
JPEGs if it’s still interesting for you.

Maybe I didn’t read carefully page by page, line by line. Can you
tell me which pdf file, which page, which line you are having problems?
I will then confirm it again with my display.

I just got the latest versions of GhostScript 7.04 / GSview 4.2 and checked.
Great ! Folks made a lot of changes sinse mine old versions and today imho
this product is good enough.

Last question: where can i get this latest gs* tools for QRTP and is it
available as a native Photon applications ?

Frank

Thank you.

// wbr

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They are Xlib-based. No native Photon ports. Don’t know about gv, but
xpdf is also very slow and has lot of usability issues.

  • igor

Ian Zagorskih wrote:

fliu@bb.vipstage.com> > wrote in message news:a4u2pd$1eq$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Ian Zagorskih <> ianzag@mail.ru> > wrote:

Sure. If you’r interesting please check
ftp://194.149.227.98/work/images/gsv_aar > Some pages arn’t rendered by
GSV at
all, some rendered but quality could be a way better. Seems like GSV
dosn’t
use TTF fonts at all :-/

Versions are: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 and GSview 2.1. If frankly i’m
not
sure if this is the latest version of GSV so maybe this problems have
been
fixed in newer GSV.

I just downloaded 3 pdf files and one postscript file from your ftp site ,
I can view of them fine on my linux box with
[fliu@beta test]$ gv -v
gv 3.5.8
[fliu@beta test]$ gs --version
6.51
(both came as default with the redhat 7.2).

Your versions are sligltly newer > :slight_smile: > I used first available and seems like
they were too old.

(I don’t know what are those big *.bmp files on your ftp site).

Screenshots in form .bmp > :slight_smile: > I compressed them into
JPEGs if it’s still interesting for you.

Maybe I didn’t read carefully page by page, line by line. Can you
tell me which pdf file, which page, which line you are having problems?
I will then confirm it again with my display.

I just got the latest versions of GhostScript 7.04 / GSview 4.2 and checked.
Great ! Folks made a lot of changes sinse mine old versions and today imho
this product is good enough.

Last question: where can i get this latest gs* tools for QRTP and is it
available as a native Photon applications ?

Frank

Thank you.

// wbr

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Previously, fliu@bb.vipstage.com wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.advocacy:


I just downloaded 3 pdf files and one postscript file from your ftp site ,
I can view of them fine on my linux box with
[fliu@beta test]$ gv -v
gv 3.5.8

OOPS ! reply isn’t a post.

With all due respect, how does all this relate to which viewer
works with RTP ?

–
Cowboy

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
– Homer

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Igor Kovalenko <Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> wrote:

They are Xlib-based. No native Photon ports. Don’t know about gv, but
xpdf is also very slow and has lot of usability issues.

don’t know about qnx6, but I ported gv (ghostview) and gs to qnx4
several years ago to view pdf files. haven’t seen any problem.
xpdf wasn’t usable at that time.

xpdf 1.0 (released few weeks ago) was a full write.
I just tried it on my redhat linux box to view Ian’s pdf files.
It worked without a problem, as I mentioned in a previous post.

all those a X apps though. don’t know how well they will work under
Xphoton but if you are using the xfree86
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/openqnx
it should work as well as in linux.

I seem to remember reading it somewhere (a few years ago) that gs
had been ported to native photon. but that was qnx4 days …

frank


  • igor

Ian Zagorskih wrote:

fliu@bb.vipstage.com> > wrote in message news:a4u2pd$1eq$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Ian Zagorskih <> ianzag@mail.ru> > wrote:

Sure. If you’r interesting please check
ftp://194.149.227.98/work/images/gsv_aar > Some pages arn’t rendered by
GSV at
all, some rendered but quality could be a way better. Seems like GSV
dosn’t
use TTF fonts at all :-/

Versions are: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 and GSview 2.1. If frankly i’m
not
sure if this is the latest version of GSV so maybe this problems have
been
fixed in newer GSV.

I just downloaded 3 pdf files and one postscript file from your ftp site ,
I can view of them fine on my linux box with
[fliu@beta test]$ gv -v
gv 3.5.8
[fliu@beta test]$ gs --version
6.51
(both came as default with the redhat 7.2).

Your versions are sligltly newer > :slight_smile: > I used first available and seems like
they were too old.

(I don’t know what are those big *.bmp files on your ftp site).

Screenshots in form .bmp > :slight_smile: > I compressed them into
JPEGs if it’s still interesting for you.

Maybe I didn’t read carefully page by page, line by line. Can you
tell me which pdf file, which page, which line you are having problems?
I will then confirm it again with my display.

I just got the latest versions of GhostScript 7.04 / GSview 4.2 and checked.
Great ! Folks made a lot of changes sinse mine old versions and today imho
this product is good enough.

Last question: where can i get this latest gs* tools for QRTP and is it
available as a native Photon applications ?

Frank

Thank you.

// wbr

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Cowboy <curt@gwis.com> wrote:

Previously, > fliu@bb.vipstage.com > wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.advocacy:
I just downloaded 3 pdf files and one postscript file from your ftp site ,
I can view of them fine on my linux box with
[fliu@beta test]$ gv -v
gv 3.5.8

OOPS ! reply isn’t a post.

With all due respect, how does all this relate to which viewer
works with RTP ?

this just shows the open source alternatives do work.
fyi, those were ported and downloadable from qnxstart before it
went under. we all know qnxzone is planned as qnxstart’s replace.
folks at qnxzone.com are busy working right now. let’s give
them a bit more time.

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<fliu@bb.vipstage.com> wrote in message news:a50rrk$2ig$1@inn.qnx.com…

Igor Kovalenko <> Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> > wrote:
They are Xlib-based. No native Photon ports. Don’t know about gv, but
xpdf is also very slow and has lot of usability issues.

don’t know about qnx6, but I ported gv (ghostview) and gs to qnx4
several years ago to view pdf files. haven’t seen any problem.
xpdf wasn’t usable at that time.

Where can i get this QNX4 ports ? Today i use QNX4 as a primary development
platform so it would be great to view PDFs under QNX4/Photon1.x.

ps: sure phpdf exists for QNX4 but version i have is really terrible and
almost impossible to use.

xpdf 1.0 (released few weeks ago) was a full write.
I just tried it on my redhat linux box to view Ian’s pdf files.
It worked without a problem, as I mentioned in a previous post.

all those a X apps though. don’t know how well they will work under
Xphoton but if you are using the xfree86
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/openqnx
it should work as well as in linux.

I seem to remember reading it somewhere (a few years ago) that gs
had been ported to native photon. but that was qnx4 days …

For someones “that qnx4 days” are “today days” so can you give me more info
where i can get this QNX4/Photon GS/GSview verison ? :slight_smile: Would be great.

frank

// wbr

17

As Ignor mentioned in his post, “no native photon ports”.
My qnx4 ports of gs/gv is for X in QNX4.
frank
Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@mail.ru> wrote:

fliu@bb.vipstage.com> > wrote in message news:a50rrk$2ig$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Igor Kovalenko <> Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> > wrote:
They are Xlib-based. No native Photon ports. Don’t know about gv, but
xpdf is also very slow and has lot of usability issues.

don’t know about qnx6, but I ported gv (ghostview) and gs to qnx4
several years ago to view pdf files. haven’t seen any problem.
xpdf wasn’t usable at that time.

Where can i get this QNX4 ports ? Today i use QNX4 as a primary development
platform so it would be great to view PDFs under QNX4/Photon1.x.

ps: sure phpdf exists for QNX4 but version i have is really terrible and
almost impossible to use.

xpdf 1.0 (released few weeks ago) was a full write.
I just tried it on my redhat linux box to view Ian’s pdf files.
It worked without a problem, as I mentioned in a previous post.

all those a X apps though. don’t know how well they will work under
Xphoton but if you are using the xfree86
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/openqnx
it should work as well as in linux.

I seem to remember reading it somewhere (a few years ago) that gs
had been ported to native photon. but that was qnx4 days …

For someones “that qnx4 days” are “today days” so can you give me more info
where i can get this QNX4/Photon GS/GSview verison ? > :slight_smile: > Would be great.

frank

// wbr

18

Actually, at least one QNX4 Photon port of gs has been around for a long
time. I have a copy downloaded from QSSL (I’m pretty sure) ported by
Karsten Koffmann.
Date is Sept 99. I could e-mail it - it’s pretty big to attach here.

Dave

fliu@bb.vipstage.com wrote:

As Ignor mentioned in his post, “no native photon ports”.
My qnx4 ports of gs/gv is for X in QNX4.
frank
Ian Zagorskih <> ianzag@mail.ru> > wrote:


fliu@bb.vipstage.com> > wrote in message news:a50rrk$2ig$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …

Igor Kovalenko <> Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> > wrote:

They are Xlib-based. No native Photon ports. Don’t know about gv, but
xpdf is also very slow and has lot of usability issues.

don’t know about qnx6, but I ported gv (ghostview) and gs to qnx4
several years ago to view pdf files. haven’t seen any problem.
xpdf wasn’t usable at that time.


Where can i get this QNX4 ports ? Today i use QNX4 as a primary development
platform so it would be great to view PDFs under QNX4/Photon1.x.


ps: sure phpdf exists for QNX4 but version i have is really terrible and
almost impossible to use.


xpdf 1.0 (released few weeks ago) was a full write.
I just tried it on my redhat linux box to view Ian’s pdf files.
It worked without a problem, as I mentioned in a previous post.

all those a X apps though. don’t know how well they will work under
Xphoton but if you are using the xfree86
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/openqnx
it should work as well as in linux.

I seem to remember reading it somewhere (a few years ago) that gs
had been ported to native photon. but that was qnx4 days …


For someones “that qnx4 days” are “today days” so can you give me more info
where i can get this QNX4/Photon GS/GSview verison ? > :slight_smile: > Would be great.