home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Turnbull China Bikeride
/
Turnbull China Bikeride - Disc 1.iso
/
DEMON
/
UTILS
/
PDFTOPS_.ARC
/
ReadMe1st
< prev
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-06-11
|
2KB
|
58 lines
ReadMe1st
=========
The original xpdf README file is in this archive, as README.
NOTE: This archive does not contain the complete source to the xpdf-0.5
package as distributed by the original author (Derek Noonburg
<derekn@ece.cmu.edu>) To obtain the complete original source you should
look at:
WWW: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dn0o/xpdf/xpdf.html
FTP: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/xpdf/
Thanks are due to Derek for permission to distribute the modified sources and
just the pdftops part of his package.
pdftops
=======
This is a RISC OS port of a tool which converts Adobe(R) Portable
Document Format (PDF) files into PostScript(R) files.
It is command line only. It also requires the `gzip' program from !GZip
(package b051 from HENSA and its mirrors) to be copied into your Library
directory (or somewhere else on the default path).
You also require RiScript (package c079 on HENSA) plus patches from Chris
Poole, available at HENSA once the latest changes are added to the archive
(the last modified date in 31 May 96 as I write this, so if its changed
from that, then it's there), or direct from:
ftp://triton.chu.cam.ac.uk/pub/riscript/
WARNING: RiScript is not exactly blistering at rendering the PostScript.
Some of the ARM documents on www.arm.com took 5 minutes or longer to render
per page :-(
But it's a start - and you may even prefer to print the PostScript
documents straight off, rather than view them on the screen.
I do *NOT* envisage this project continuing very much further. If further
versions of xpdf are released, then I *MAY* decide to do the Acorn port of
them. It is purposefully a stopgap solution. It isn't perfect. It
works OK for me.
Rebuilding it
=============
This requires Acorn C/C++ with Cupdate1.
Build the stuff in the goo directory first
Then build the stuff in the xpdf directory
--
Stewart Brodie
11th June 1996