On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 18:43, Wade Hampton wrote: > -=Brian Truter=- wrote: > > >Does anyone know of a way to view a PDF without X? > > > >Our store systems do not use the X Window System, and we were considering > >sending some documentation to them in PDF format. The only utilities I know > >of off-hand require X to view. > > > > > You might want to consider shipping your docs in multiple formats, if you > have control over the generation of the documents. For example, you could > create using OpenOffice, save as sxw, doc, html, and PDF. You could also > create using Word or WordPerfect and either print to postscript and use > ps2pdf > or use the Adobe distiller (extra cost). > > You could have a simple server or apache and display the pages using lynx > on the store systems. The PDF could be used for print-ready docs and > displayable > on in-store windows boxes, etc. > There also exists a pdf printer for windows which is free as in speech IIRC. It actualyl outputs to html, ps and pdf. Maynard
