On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 10:12 -0500, Mike Mestnik wrote: > I'm CCing Ron as I don't expect my comment will be un-delayed > reaching the rest of the list. Not the case. > Any advice for posting by non-list members? Don't CC people. Subscribe to the list (though non-subscribers can still post) and filter it to a folder. Trim quotes down to just enough to give context. > I think the problem lies in education of the makers of PDFs. I'd like > to just plain see them use another format, but if I can get them to > use software that's better supported then that would make every one > happier. I thought PDF was a standard. Certainly seems to be well enough supported. > > (a) What DE & PDF reader are you using? > > > What could be better then any copy of GS made after 2000? > > GPL Ghostscript 8.15 (2004-09-22) There's your problem. Try some other PDF reader. I'm not even sure Ghostscript is actively maintained anymore. > I've attempted to recompile a newer copy, but the OS(SunOS 5.8) I'm on > won't support it. "File / Save as -> Office 1997?" I'm sure many of > the users will still remember as I do. Never mind that that MS Office documents rarely (never?) appear the same on two computers, even with the same software. > > (b) Have you tried acroread? > > > This will not work on many handheld device? As well as most of my > Desktops(PPC64 and FreeBSD). Ohh, but it will work on my Sparc. Is > it text-only for my ssh sessions or will I need to bother with X over > slow links? I'll find out. Acroread is available for PalmOS. You'll have to contact Adobe directly for it, though. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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