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Re: pdf files on Linux?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Wed Nov 11 00:27:50 1998

Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 20:22:52 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Jan Carlson wrote:
> 
> Michael Jinks wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to view and print out a government form that needs an Adobe
> > Acrobat reader.  (which pisses me off, but what can I do. . . )
> >
> > I tried using Ghostview but it gagged on the file.  Is there something
> > that will do this without going to a Wintel box?
> 
> Yes, there is an Adobe PDF viewer for Linux.

Does that mean you need X windows too?  The fellow wants to
print something he gets on the wire.  What if I get to access
this form with Lynx or with FTP?  ON a linux box with NO X windows
(as are MOST of my machines running Linux here!).

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