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the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos (Announce)

posted by bocke, 09.02.2024, 20:23
(edited by bocke on 09.02.2024, 20:41)

> Just as an FYI, Adobe Acrobat for DOS comes with several PDF 1.0 documents
> that I am able to view with the reader, so I'm pretty sure it's not a bad
> installation of the software. I'm 99% sure the converter is not creating
> documents that are truly version 1.0.
>

I can confirm that. I didn't find any converter that can strip down PDFs to 1.0. The ones that come with GhostScript or use GhostScript in background usually target 1.2 as the lowest version. I haven't had any luck with generating or converting PDF 1.0 that Adobe Reader 1.0 would read.

> Also, in the experiments I have discovered that the Adobe Reader does NOT
> work under several Virtual Machines (specifically DOSBox, DOSBox-X,
> Hyper-V, QEMU, vDOS, and VirtualBox). It does seem to work OK under Bochs.
> There may be others it does or doesn't work with as well -- I haven't
> tested them all. Anyway, Adobe Acrobat Reader for DOS may be a good
> compatibility test for Virtual Machines.

I'm pretty sure I ran Acrobat Reader under multiple VMs.

I just tested it out and this is Acrobat Reader running in vanilla DOSBox 0.74.3 without any patches in VESA 1024x768 resolution:
https://i.imgur.com/gnPsqd7.png

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