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

posted by bretjohn Homepage E-mail, Rio Rancho, NM, 11.02.2024, 22:05

> No, the versions are ok. I use 0.74-3 too and it works.
>
> It might be something connected to drivers or programs you load in DOSBox.
> Try using it bare with empty [autoexec] and [config] sections in
> dosbox.conf/dosbox-x.conf and without autoexec.bat.
>
> What OS?
>
> I am sorry if I'm bothering you with this. I just think there shouldn't
> that big difference between similar versions of DOSBox and that it might be
> easily solvable. Maybe I'm wrong, but my tech support senses are tingling.
> If you don't want to bother, it's ok. I won't ask you anything about that
> anymore. :)
I did some experimentation and figured out the problem. It turns out to be the DPMS servers I use (which were made by Novell back when they were in charge of DR-DOS). Apparently, DPMS has a conflict with whatever DOS extender Acrobat Reader uses (I saw somewhere what it was, but I don't remember - but I know it's an extender and not DPMI). I don't know if you're familiar with DPMS or not, but it's sort of a "DPMI for TSRs and device drivers". I'm converting all my TSR's to take advantage of DPMS since it can save a TON of memory.

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