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"Angus B. Grieve-Smith" Date: Thu Aug 23, 2001 3:10 pm Subject: Re: No more printing problems! ;-) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Valerie Sutton wrote: > Actually Angus, this is another difference with Ghostview and Acrobat. > Acrobat did not acknowledge the second page at all. It said it was a > one page document. So the second page did not exist, even for viewing, > in Acrobat...There are clearly differences between Ghostview and > Acrobat...and that is understandable...different programmers and > different budgets... I thought you said that Acrobat acknowledged the second page and converted it to PDF. Of course, if Ghostscript didn't see one page, it didn't convert it. > Meanwhile, technology marches on. The new version of FileMaker now > incorporates Acrobat features so that PDF files can be embedded into > the FileMaker database...so the PDF format might become more readily > accessible to users, as time goes by, built into other software, > without necessarily purchasing Acrobat per se...so the PDF format > itself is quite valuable. Yes, but the problem is that someone still has to buy FileMaker, which is not cheap. Unless you use FileMaker to create a database in an open format like SQL that can be read with other software. -- -Angus B. Grieve-Smith Linguistics Department University of New Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||||
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