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

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 13.02.2024, 06:21

Note that my documentation experience is almost nonexistent, so I do not claim to be an expert.

> I normally don't use PostScript, but I think the problem is that PS is
> really designed for printing and not viewing. I could be wrong, but I
> think you will lose the hyperlinks as you pass through PS. The hyperlinks
> are the only reason I'm even considering PDF (and maybe HTML) in the first
> place. If I don't have hyperlinks I'll just leave it as plain ASCII text.
Isn't PDF a superset / replacement for PostScript (PS)? It has a LOT more features: bundled fonts, compression, scripting, etc. Both are meant to be shown or printed exactly (and thus unlike HTML which is very loosely rendered). It's way overkill, IMHO.

Emacs used to use Texinfo, but apparently they thought about changing a few years back to AsciiDoc. I have no idea what came from that discussion. (DJGPP did just recently have yet another GNU Emacs binary published.) Emacs' Org Mode is also a good alternative, apparently.

Rob pointed to Georg's port of MuPDF, but there's also his FlWriter which supports a few documentation formats.

Another good option (that sounds like exactly what you want) might be pdfTeX, which is apparently bundled in most modern LaTeX distributions (using Knuth's TeX behind the scenes).

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