Acorn Applications in
Adobe Acrobat, PDF Format
From Nick B

07/01/2004

Thanks to Nick B for these downloads and the following info about them:

When Acorn were in existence and had a www site back in 1997 I downloaded various application notes from their webserver but the HTML document formatting was never right. Recently I discovered arcorn.riscos.com but found the files to be in either PS or arc format. I'd dabbled with various PS viewers in the past but never really had much luck and certainly couldn't justify spending a fortune on Adobe software to do the job.

I managed to get my hands on a postscript printer at work which was a start. I printed some hard copies out but the print quality wasn't terribly good and I still had no method of previewing (COPY /B FILE.PS LPT1). Then after some web searching I re-discovered GhostScript, a free program for viewing and printing PS files. The latest version has a PS to PDF converter facility so I ran all the appnotes through this and was impresed with the results.

The only downside though is that the output page size is fixed at 8.5x11 inches but the more recent Acrobat viewers will scale them to fit on A4 paper with no noticable lack of quality. I think there are still the odd one or two appnotes that are only available in arc format. Next time boot up my A3020 I will see if I can extract them and transfer them across to a PC via floppies.

Hope you find them useful,

Nick.

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