Acrobat reader

Ronald J Marchand

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Oct 1, 2001, 3:47:21 PM10/1/01

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I have been to the Adobe web pages and did not see a version of the reader
for OpenServer (5.0.5). Can anyone tell me if there is such an animal?

TIA

Ron

Fabio Giannotti

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Oct 1, 2001, 3:17:01 PM10/1/01

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There used to be a Skunkware program called "xpdf" that could be used to
read .pdf files, I would guess it's still there. (Used to be
www.sco.com/skunkware, don't know if Caldera's moved it...)
Fabio

Jean-Pierre Radley

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Oct 1, 2001, 4:46:01 PM10/1/01

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Ronald J Marchand propounded (on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 02:47:21PM -0500):

| I have been to the Adobe web pages and did not see a version of the reader
| for OpenServer (5.0.5). Can anyone tell me if there is such an animal?

I usually use ghostscript to read pdf files. Xpdf will do, too.
--
JP

Ian Peattie

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Oct 1, 2001, 4:52:02 PM10/1/01

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In article <G84u7.5404$gQ.35...@newsrump.sjc.telocity.net>, "Ronald J Marchand" <roj...@telocity.com> wrote:
>I have been to the Adobe web pages and did not see a version of the reader
>for OpenServer (5.0.5). Can anyone tell me if there is such an animal?

http://www.sco.com/misc/acrobat.html

Matt Schalit

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Oct 1, 2001, 9:51:26 PM10/1/01

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I don't know about the acrobat link on the
sco web site, but I can tell you that xpdf
is mediocre and hasn't been worked on.

Then there's gs, if you like the command line
interface.

But I prefer gv. It's on skunkware. It has
a smooth interface, good fucntionality, and
an effective anti-alias option.

Matt.

Robert Carnegie

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Oct 2, 2001, 4:37:03 AM10/2/01

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"Ronald J Marchand" <roj...@telocity.com> wrote in message news:<G84u7.5404$gQ.35...@newsrump.sjc.telocity.net>...

According to John W. Temples in 1998, and others (thank you to
http://groups.google.com), "The Linux version of Acrobat Reader
will run under OSR5 using lxrun."

There's also Acrobat Viewer written in Java (Java 1.1.8 recommended):
http://www.adobe.com:80/products/acrviewer/main.html .

I have no experience of either.

Matt Schalit

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Oct 2, 2001, 2:13:37 PM10/2/01

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I just tried the java Acrobat Viewer. They have two archives
for Unix OS's, one called viewer.bin, and the other viewer.zip.

sh ./viewer.bin
- This works pretty well. I chose /usr/java2/bin/java
and it loaded a License agreement, then choked.

export CLASSPATH=.:viewer.zip
java install
- starts an install program, then it chokes
with a thread exception in main.

I tried this with the latest Java2, 1.3.0_02 on Uw7.1.1.
Matt

Robert Carnegie

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Oct 4, 2001, 7:18:01 AM10/4/01

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msch...@pacbell.net (Matt Schalit) wrote in message news:<3bba0330...@news.sf.sbcglobal.net>...

> On 2 Oct 2001 01:37:03 -0700, rja.ca...@excite.com (Robert Carnegie) wrote:
>
> >Acrobat Viewer written in Java (Java 1.1.8 recommended):
> >http://www.adobe.com:80/products/acrviewer/main.html .
>

> I just tried the java Acrobat Viewer. They have two archives
> for Unix OS's, one called viewer.bin, and the other viewer.zip.
>
> sh ./viewer.bin
> - This works pretty well. I chose /usr/java2/bin/java
> and it loaded a License agreement, then choked.
>
>
> export CLASSPATH=.:viewer.zip
> java install
> - starts an install program, then it chokes
> with a thread exception in main.
>
>
> I tried this with the latest Java2, 1.3.0_02 on Uw7.1.1.
> Matt

But surely you haven't forgotten that there are some major
differences between Java and Java 2 - a reason to keep (or to
get) Java 1.1.x installed as well, and a reason why the SCO
guys were (I think) working on porting Java 1.1.8 (the last
1.1.x) _after_ they'd released the first Java 2.

(I see a lot of "Applet crashed" when I Web-surf from Windows
with Opera with Java 2.)

http://sco.com/java/download/ claims to have _all_ the versions...

But Acrobat Viewer may _still_ not work. Only one way to find out
(if we want to; there were plenty of other solutions).