Many things

Jules Richardson julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Jan 29 13:43:51 CST 2005


On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 00:52 +0000, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> I'm getting a feeling that der Mouse is about to remind us again that one
> can use GhostScript instead of Acrobat Reader...  The problem with
> GhostScript is that porting it to a Very Vintage platform will likely be
> more difficult than rewriting it from scratch.

Actually the problem with Ghostscript is that it's slow as hell compared
to Acrobat under Linux, at least the versions I've seen :-(

Forget about xpdf too - several seconds for each page render on a modern
PC compared to instant for Acrobat. 

Oh how I hate PDF :-(

J.






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