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Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion (Users)

posted by roytam, 10.02.2024, 16:00

> > About the second topic: PDF 1.0 conversion, I'm also interested in that.
> > But haven't found any software that's able to convert newer PDF formats
> to
> > it or that is able ot genearte PDF 1.0.
>
> Exploring a history of Ghostscript for DOS, I found out I mostly have the
> binaries from FreeDOS repo. The first one of those to support PDF was 4.03.
> I tried 4.03 and 5.10, attempting something.
>
> I tried converting modern PDF to PS with a current PDF2PS script. That
> didn't work as every generated PS featured some PS instructions these old
> Ghostscripts couldn't interpret.
>
> A also tried converting a modern PDF to PS with the old versions of PDF2PS
> that came with those releases, but it couldn't really read them.
>
> Anyway, I think these old versions might be able to generate PDF 1.0. The
> problem is, how to use this from the modern system? How to convert a well
> formed modern PDF file to use only the features of PDF 1.0 or how to
> convert PDF to a Postscript format that only include older versions of
> Postscript language?
>
> This might not be the problem if you use an older program for DOS to
> generate PS and then try to convert it to PDF. I know some later word
> processor had support for generating PS (or printing to PS printers). Also
> some text editors have support for PS. I would guess there should also be
> some DTP programs or image editing programs.
>
> But if you want to convert your favorite modern E-book to PDF 1.0, that,
> for now, is not possible.

This could be possible with windows. acrobat distiller 1.0 can parse output from *.prn file from "Print to file" function of "Apple LaserWriter" driver.
https://media.miniwa.moe/media/3a4adc6c1bf488731af70e685ab20aac8114c1a6209378798e02adfaf2763b66.png

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• Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bocke, 09.02.2024, 20:58
  • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bocke, 09.02.2024, 21:47
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  • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bocke, 10.02.2024, 07:35
    • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bocke, 10.02.2024, 15:19
    • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - roytam, 10.02.2024, 16:00
      • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bocke, 10.02.2024, 18:27
        • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - roytam, 11.02.2024, 01:21
          • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - Laaca, 11.02.2024, 19:24
          • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bocke, 12.02.2024, 02:21
    • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bretjohn, 10.02.2024, 17:01
      • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bocke, 10.02.2024, 18:25
        • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bretjohn, 10.02.2024, 18:47
          • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bocke, 10.02.2024, 20:10
            • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bretjohn, 11.02.2024, 22:05
              • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - rr, 11.02.2024, 23:21
              • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bocke, 12.02.2024, 02:56
                • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bretjohn, 13.02.2024, 20:49
      • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - Rugxulo, 13.02.2024, 06:21
  • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - Rob, 11.02.2024, 15:30
    • Acrobat Reader for DOS under emulators and PDF1 conversion - bretjohn, 11.02.2024, 21:57