8 Dec
1998
8 Dec
'98
12:22 p.m.
I remember back in '98 when Cameron Kaiser wrote:
::Not to bash the //gs, but I'm not sure it has
the horsepower to view PDF
::files. I've seen how long it can take on a 486, and even on something like
::my 604e/180, it can take quite a while. It isn't exactly a fast format.
Screw rendering it -- I just want to read the bloody thing. If I can crack
the format, all the 64 will be doing is turning it into PETSCII.
Watch out--some pdf's are just 75-100dpi images of the page. This
seems to be especially common for old data sheets and the like
upgraded to the "new" system.
Matt
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