29 Jan
2005
29 Jan
'05
12:48 p.m.
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
Actually the problem with Ghostscript is that it's
slow as hell compared
to Acrobat under Linux, at least the versions I've seen :-(
Forget about xpdf too - several seconds for each page render on a modern
PC compared to instant for Acrobat.
Wow. My 500MHz laptop renders postscript just fine. There's a
"noticable" render time (eg. it's not instantaneous) but it's
hardly an impediment to reading.
(I've got a Sony VX89, 512M RAM, 500/900MHz CPU (acpi) nice screen
etc, I put up with it for its 6 - 9 hr battery life.)
freeBSD now, SuSE linux then. Haven't tried a DOS/Win port of it
in a long time though.
Oh how I hate PDF :-(
It's still useful, but it's being perverted as a "read only"
no-fair-use medium for DRM purposes, on Windows anyways. It's
misused a lot too.
Tom Jennings <tomj(a)wps.com>