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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:34:35 -0400, John Hupp wrote:
> Under Arachne 1.90JG and FreeDOS 0.9 SR2,
> Glenn McCorkle's revised ARA-PDF plug-in was
> working nicely to allow me to open most PDF's
> online or offline from my hard drive.
> But now under a fresh installation of the new
> FreeDOS 1.0 and the new Arachne1.90J1, then
> installing ARA-PDF, I no longer find that it
> works either for online or offline PDF's. (My
> previous test case was
> http://
www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
> which was a nice example of a somewhat newer
> PDF format, circa 1998.)
> Anyone know what the issue could be?
> The only straw I have to offer in terms of my
> own thoughts is that the new FreeDOS does not
> bundle CWSDPMI, but a variant DPMI that works
> better for some applications. But I have no
> idea if ARA-PDF, GhostScript or Arachne make
> use of that.
> Perhaps someone could also clarify for me:
> Previously a separate installation of
> GhostScript (of a certain flavor specified by
> Glenn) needed to be installed at C:GS, but
> Glenn's new package seems to install its own
> GS in a sub-directory under C:ARACHNE.
> --John Hupp
To save the need of downloading a 5meg AMP all the time,
GS is no longer included within ara-pdf.apm
The instructions in ara-pdf.apm now read as follows.......
'PDF2HTM' Converts .PDF files into BMPs
(one for each page of the PDF),
These BMPs are then viewed in Arachne via the generated HTM
file.
This plugin requires GhostScript v7.05 (not included)
Download GS here.<--- link to gs705dos.zip
(requires 12megs of free disk space)
Unzip to drive C: with this command....
pkunzip -d gs705dos.zip c:
(must be on drive C: to work correctly)
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