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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: PDF viewers
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 19:26:53 +0100 (MET)
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I got this message from an unrelated list.  It's a pdf viewer which
seems to work reasonably well, and it's probably faster than using
ghostscript (and certainly much smaller). Worth a try, and possibly
making it a package.

	Luigi

> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 14:38:13 -0500
> From: "Derek B. Noonburg" <derekn@VW.ECE.CMU.EDU>
> Subject: PDF viewers (was Re: Re[2]: data in mpasm and User's Guide)
> In-reply-to: "04 Feb 1996 10:45:54 +0200."
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> 
> I'll take this opportunity to plug xpdf, my free PDF viewer for X.  It's
> still an alpha version, but it works reasonably well.  I designed it to
> be small and efficient (no Motif - and it was developed entirely on a 12
> MB 486 under Linux), so you should be able to run it on pretty much
> anything that can handle X.
> 
> One thing -- it seems that some (most? all?) of Microchip's PDF files
> are encrypted.  Adobe hasn't released the specs for decryption, so
> you're forced to use an Adobe viewer.  I know that Microchip watches
> this list, so I'd like to encourage them to stop using this pointless
> encryption.
> 
> The xpdf home page is:
> http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dn0o/xpdf/xpdf.html
> 
> Source code and several binaries are available from ftp.andrew.cmu.edu
> in the /pub/xpdf directory.
> 
> - Derek
> 

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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
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