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Adobe has a Linux version of their reader, and in addition to ghostview
there are now PDF readers for KDE and Gnome.
For more info, take a look at
http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/apps/acrobat.shtml
Cheers
Chris
Martin McCormick wrote:
> I use Linux at home and Linux and FreeBSD UNIX at work.
> The ps2ascii utility under Linux will sometimes let one read a
> PDF document depending upon how it was originally encoded. Of
> course, the lazy-man way of just scanning in to a PDF image
> creates a totally useless blob of binary image data unless one
> has and or wants to go to the trouble of running it through an OCR
> program.
>
> Other PDF's cause an outpouring of error messages about
> stacks and internal objects in the ps2ascii program but no useful
> output.
>
> Basically, sometimes it works and works well while other
> times nothing useful happens.
>
> The dream of just knowing it's going to work is still a
> dream.
>
> Generally, the quest for universal information access
> reminds me of the technician's lament which goes, "If the job
> requires N tools, there will be N minus 1 tools in the tool box."
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
>
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>
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Chris von See
Senior Geek
TechAdapt, Inc.
http://www.techadapt.com
Phone: 360-223-1514
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