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xpdf - a PDF viewer for X
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Jan 26 18:15:08 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:53:20 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: "Derek B. Noonburg" <derekn@vw.ece.cmu.edu>
Subject: xpdf - a PDF viewer for X
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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.
Instructions are included for setting up netscape to run xpdf when you
click on a PDF file link.
Binaries are available for:
* Linux (x86)
* AIX 4.1 (PowerPC)
* SunOS 4.1 (SPARC)
* Ultrix 4.4 (MIPS)
* OSF/1 1.3 (Alpha)
Source (C++ and C) is also available, and it should be fairly easy to
compile for other UNIX / X systems.
This is an alpha version, so it's still a little buggy.
This version contains a workaround for the Unisys LZW patent.
LZW-compressed data is converted (without decompressing) to standard
UNIX compress format, and then uncompress is used to actually do the
decompression.
More information, source code, and precompiled binaries are at:
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dn0o/xpdf/xpdf.html
The source code is available from:
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xpdf-0.3.tar.gz
It will also be uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu as soon as I can get
through (check /pub/Linux/Incoming and
/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers).
- - Derek
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