On Saturday 09 July 2005 01:24 pm, Stefan Trethan wrote:
it works...
installed it yet, figuring that most of what I've got worked fine. There
are a small number of datasheets that the current software won't open, so
maybe one of these days I'll get around to installing that and seeing if it
deals with them or assume that if it won't the files really are corrupted...
> On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:45:44 +0200, Roy J. TellasonHmm. I never thought about using that program to open postscript files, but
>
> <rtellason@...> wrote:
> > Possibly, I haven't tried it. What use would postscript be?
>
> well, you can open it with other graphics software, sometimes ;-)
> maybe gimp.
it works...
> >> If all else falis install a postscript printer and divert it to file.Probably would work, yeah.
> >
> > I have a postscript printer, it just isn't in use at the present time.
>
> You don't need the physical printer, you just tell the PC you got one and
> divert the output not to lpt1 or so but a file instead. I don't remember
> how this is done with unix but i remember it is fairly easy. Under windows
> you just click print to file. But it only gives you a postscript file again.
> Still much better than scanned.
> Is there still no better PDF reader for unix? the acrobat reader has theThere are a couple of them here, and I did get the adobe product but haven't
> select text/image function for ages.
installed it yet, figuring that most of what I've got worked fine. There
are a small number of datasheets that the current software won't open, so
maybe one of these days I'll get around to installing that and seeing if it
deals with them or assume that if it won't the files really are corrupted...