29 Jan
2005
29 Jan
'05
5:43 a.m.
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 00:52 +0000, Michael Sokolov wrote:
I'm getting a feeling that der Mouse is about to
remind us again that one
can use GhostScript instead of Acrobat Reader... The problem with
GhostScript is that porting it to a Very Vintage platform will likely be
more difficult than rewriting it from scratch.
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.
Oh how I hate PDF :-(
J.