.pdf reader

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John S. MacKay

I don't want to compose anything in .pdf ... I just want to read .pdf
documents available on the internet. Adobe 5.0 is said to do the trick,
but it doesn't function for me. There was such a program available from an
educ site but at this time the site is "not available". Any advice ? John
M.
 
John S. MacKay said:
I don't want to compose anything in .pdf ... I just want to read .pdf
documents available on the internet. Adobe 5.0 is said to do the trick,
but it doesn't function for me. There was such a program available from an
educ site but at this time the site is "not available". Any advice ? John
M.
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I don't know what problem you might have experienced with version 5, but
maybe try giving version 6.0 a try:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Regards,
Ian.
 
Ionizer wrote in said:
I don't know what problem you might have experienced with version 5, but
maybe try giving version 6.0 a try:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
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About version 6.0 see:
"Adobe quiet release of Reader software causes people to scream"
<{http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9896> (Sunday 08 June 2003)

quick links to Adobe Reader software categorized by version
<http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
I don't want to compose anything in .pdf ... I just want to read .pdf
documents available on the internet. Adobe 5.0 is said to do the trick,
but it doesn't function for me. There was such a program available from an
educ site but at this time the site is "not available". Any advice ? John
M.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader is definitely the answer. Adobe invented Pdf files
and Acrobat is the native application for them.


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John wrote:

JSM> I don't want to compose anything in .pdf ... I just
JSM> want to read .pdf documents available on the internet.

I use a very old version of Acrobat (3) available from
www.oldversion.com or on most old software install CD's.

It works for most of the PDF files I come across - but
chokes on recent fancy ones.

Ghostview can read PDF files adequately also.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
 
Adobe Acrobat Reader is definitely the answer. Adobe invented Pdf files
and Acrobat is the native application for them.
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Reader just keeps get more big and bloated with every release. The earlier
versions were one or two mb, now its around 16mb. Time to ditch the Reader
for some competition. In Linux they have a few options, I wonder if someone
has ported any to Windows.
 
Reader just keeps get more big and bloated with every release. The
earlier versions were one or two mb, now its around 16mb. Time to
ditch the Reader for some competition. In Linux they have a few
options, I wonder if someone has ported any to Windows.
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Adobe's basic pdf reader is only 8mb.

--
Tiger

"Zero is where the fun starts
There is too much counting everywhere else."
- Hafiz
 
If you think it's too big, stop updating.
The old version will be able to read the basics anyway.
When it's getting really old, you can submit it to www.oldversion.com.. :)
No kidding - I think by the time it's really outdated you get a new
computer which has some TB's.
And the Reader will be only 1 GB? :D
 
I don't want to compose anything in .pdf ... I just want to read .pdf
documents available on the internet. Adobe 5.0 is said to do the
trick, but it doesn't function for me. There was such a program
available from an educ site but at this time the site is "not
available". Any advice ? John M.
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Get Ghostview (v4.5) + Ghostscript (v8.11) from
<http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/>

These two programs read and render .ps, .ps.gz and .pdf files. They are
free and under the Aladdin Free Public Licence. In particular, the
readme.htm file of the GSView distribution states:

"These licences do not require any payment to the author;
however the author would welcome any registrations of GSview to cover
costs and time involved in developing and maintaining GSview.
The registration fee is currently AUD$40."


/luigi


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Science and Technology Studies
Room 2048 TEL Building
York University, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J-1P3
phone: +1 (416) 736-2100 x-30104 fax: +1 (416) 736-5188
http://www.yorku.ca/sasit/sts/
 
Hi,
@Quote(http://home.online.no/~shughes/a57998/quote.html#001a)
I'm being treated a bit cold here, it's different than my inpression of
pricelessware.org was.
If you're irritated because I don't quote, at least type some text.
If you want me to do something, it's better to ask it than to use the
'finger-pointing method'.
I don't want to insult you - it just works better like that.

Anyway, sorry I made you angry: I'm used to not quoting.
On some phpBB boards, people get angry when you do quote the way people
here get angry when you don't.
On these boards people quote in every reply,
which is not necessary (since one can just read the previous post) and even
polluting the db.
Off course one should quote when one needs it to understand the reply.

Hope to have cleared up things this way.
 
Anyway, sorry I made you angry: I'm used to not quoting.
On some phpBB boards, people get angry when you do quote the way people
here get angry when you don't.
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That's because there, the archive is maintained. Here, it isn't.
Usenet is not a BBS, it just looks like one sometimes. Try to find a
message from last year on your ISP's server, you probably won't find
it unless you yourself saved it. (If you do find it, please let us
know who your ISP is, maybe someone else would like to be their
customer too.)
 
GAH! Ver.6 is outright crap!! Bloated, mangled garbage that
takes forever to boot on even fast systems with lots of RAM.
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For a big improvement make sure the splash screen is disabled
(edit>preferences>startup) and follow the changes recommended at
http://tinyurl.com/ogla. Works great on my WinXP HE system.
 
Yeah, I bet your system needs a pre-5.1 version. I had to install Reader 4
on my folks' PC's and, alas, it doesn't display all the PDF's I have. Not
even most of 'em, actually. :[
About version 6.0 see:
"Adobe quiet release of Reader software causes people to scream"
<{http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9896> (Sunday 08 June 2003)

quick links to Adobe Reader software categorized by version
<http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
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Regarding the load time and size being bad, I've never noticed a problem,
myself, with Acrobat Reader 6.0 (compared to start-up of many of my other
programs). It's download made me want to scream, but so did the Batman
short film, and I downloaded it!

Anyway, I was curious about this brew-ha-ha regarding start speed, so I
decided to load the Dramatica book's pdf file (which is HUGE). Acrobat was
not already started, so it took about 18 seconds (maybe 17--I was too lazy
to use my stopwatch). I cleaned up memory (using FreeRamXP Pro) and it took
12 seconds to startup and load that file. (I did not boot in-between.)

(I use FreeRAM XP Pro to clean up memory, but RAMpage rocks too. You can
find FreeRamXPpro, and maybe RAMpage I think, on my website in this folder:
www.neowulf.net/Pub/ :)

OpenOffice.org, loading a small word processing document, loaded in about
32 seconds. I think the splash screen did not pop up until 16 seconds into
that load time. I think my start-up threshold is around 30 seconds, but
OpenOffice is SO good that I don't care!

The first time I start Windows Explorer (XP), it takes forever, but that
serves me right for not using PowerDesk instead! (I do this on WinXP HE
with a measly 256MB of RAM.)

*More importantly* (to me) is that OpenOffice (which I love too much to
even THINK of buying M$ Office!) takes up 69MB while minimized. Reader6, by
comparison, takes up about 5 and a half MB minimized (with that PDF book
loaded). Within a while, though, it'll access the Net--thin it uses 10MB of
RAM while minimized. FYI

*MOST Importantly* (to me): is that Reader 6 can dictate the PDF to me! My
health problems limit the amount of reading I can do, so this
ability--added to the AMAZING compatibility of CutePDF to print to a PDF
file that almost always can be read excellently! YAY! None of this stuff
costs me money, and I can still read (almost) as much as I want!


Freeware ROCKS!


Aaron (neowulf)
 
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