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What is the best PDF viewer for DOS? (Users)

posted by Steve Homepage E-mail, US, 06.01.2008, 15:33
(edited by Steve on 06.01.2008, 16:09)

> I tried download XPDF package for DOS but it doesn't contain XPDF.EXE just
> this files:
>
> Výpis adresáře H:\1SOFT\_pdf\xpdf-3.02pl2-dos6
>
> 06.11.2007 15:58 333 908 PDFFONTS.EXE
> 06.11.2007 15:58 334 336 PDFIMGS.EXE
> 06.11.2007 15:58 335 552 PDFINFO.EXE
> 06.11.2007 15:58 357 316 PDFTEXT.EXE
> 06.11.2007 15:58 370 496 PDFTOPS.EXE
> 5 souborů, 1 731 608 bajtů
These are basically converters. "PDFTEXT.EXE 1.pdf" outputs 1.txt, etc. Not as powerful as the whole of Ghostscript, but good for a sampling of what's in a .pdf.

> And GhostScript is AFAIK for working with PS/EPS files. And it needs
> GhostView for graphics output. It probably will not directly display PDF?
> I'm going to try it.
Ghostscript also displays and converts PDF. "Ghostview is an X11 user interface for Ghostscript, allowing you to view and navigate PostScript files." Available for Linux / Unixes / VMS. The similar GSView is available for Windows & OS/2. Both are nice front-ends that make Ghostview [edit: should be Ghostscript] easier to use, but they are not required.

> p.s. sometimes I need to be in pure DOS (not emulaor) but need to read
> some PDF. And don't want to reboot of course :)
You should have no problems (not counting the time it takes to learn Ghostscript - it's big).

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