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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: xpdf 0.4 - a PDF viewer for X - sci.electronics.misc #7472 (fwd)
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There's a new version of xpdf, I tired it quickly and it seems to
compile/work well. If someone wants to do a port of it...

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Subject: ANNOUNCE: xpdf 0.4 - a PDF viewer for X - sci.electronics.misc #7472

In article <DEREKN.96Apr26230740@vw.ece.cmu.edu>, derekn@vw.ece.cmu.edu (Derek B. Noonburg) writes:
|> I've just released a new version of xpdf, my Portable Document Format
|> (PDF) viewer for X.
|> 
|> If you've wanted to look at PDF files, but couldn't because Adobe
|> didn't have a viewer for your system, you'll want to check out xpdf.
|> 
|> Changes in version 0.4:
|> 
|> * Implemented the DCT (aka JPEG) image filter -- no more black
|>   rectangles
|> * PostScript output and a separate pdftops program 
|> * Hyperlinks 
|> * More key bindings 
|> * Lots of other little things (see the `CHANGES' file) 
|> 
|> Source (C++ and C) is available, and it should be fairly easy to
|> compile for UNIX or VMS.
...
|> More information, source code, and precompiled binaries are at:
|> 
|>   http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dn0o/xpdf/xpdf.html
|>   ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/xpdf/
|> 
|> Source and Linux binaries are on sunsite.unc.edu, currently in
|> /pub/Linux/Incoming but they will be moved to:
|> 
|>   ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/graphics/viewers/
|> 
|> - Derek


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