Re: What is PDF? (Re: PRE)
lilley (lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk)
Thu, 4 May 1995 12:00:45 +0100 (BST)
From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <2251.9505041100@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: What is PDF? (Re: PRE)
To: lmcquarr@mv.us.adobe.com
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 12:00:45 +0100 (BST)
Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
In-Reply-To: <9504027994.AA799428984@signum.mv.us.adobe.com> from "lmcquarr@mv.us.adobe.com" at May 2, 95 01:00:11 pm
Liz McQuarrie said:
> To find out more and get a free PDF reader, visit the Adobe home page
> at http://www.adobe.com .
To save time for anyone who uses Unix (unless they have a Sun)
<http://www.adobe.com/Acrobat/AcrobatWWW.html> says
"Adobe has FREE Acrobat Reader software available that you can download
for Macintosh, Windows, DOS, and Sun UNIX."
<http://www.adobe.com/Software.html> also tells us that the MS-Windows
and Mac software is at version 2.0 while the DOS and Sun (4.1.3 or
Solaris 2.3) versions are at version 1.0. It also says:
"Sorry, no other versions of Acrobat Reader are currently
available
We are working on versions for Windows NT and HP/UX as well as some
others. Schedule and availability have not yet been announced."
This does not sound too hopeful for Unix users.
--
Chris Lilley, Technical Author
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Manchester and North HPC Training & Education Centre |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk |
| Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 61 275 6045 |
| Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 61 275 6040 |
| M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL |
| URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/lilley.html |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| "The first W in WWW will not wait." François Yergeau |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+