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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> Supposedly a really fast video card with onboard RAM helps 
> compensate for a slower cpu.  We have one Nvidia to try in the 
> 600MHz computer.

A video card with motion compensation. You need drivers and other
things. If you have a 600MHz processor, you should not need this.

> > Are there issues with the Slackware xpdf?
> 
> It is out of date and will not work on pdf 1.5 files, which came 
> out some time this past year or so.  People keep sending me scanned 
> documents that they convert to pdf 1.5 before emailing.  The IRS 
> puts out its documents are some format of pdf designed to be filled 
> in, which even gs 8.50 which I compiled (for glibc 2.2.5) prints 
> out half a page down, so I had to use xpdf 3.0 on those too.  I 
> think it was pdftops, and then I could print with gs.

I may need to research the various free pdf viewers.

> I should try pstopnm from netpbm next.

pstopnm just uses ghostscript.

David
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