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> Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1998 14:25:25 +0000
> From: Timothy Murphy <tim@MATHS.TCD.IE>
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 03:03:43PM -0500, Y&Y, Inc. wrote:
>

> >
> > Not sure I get it.  The Acrobat Reader is free.
> > And on platforms that support printers you can print
> > from Acrobat Reader to anything that comes with a
> > working printer driver.
>
> Apologies.
> I don't live in the Happy, Happy Micro$oft world.
> We poor Linux-ers sometimes forget how our lucky brethren live.

Timothy, I do not get you. There are several options for viewing and
printing PDF files on Linux: Adobe Acrobat for Linux,
xpdf. ghostscript newer than 5.0... My experience shows that printing
pdf on Unix is usually simpler than on Microsoft platforms. The
Windows drivers are like everything made by Microsoft or for
Microsoft: buggy, sleazy and unreliable.

--
Good luck

-Boris
http://www.plmsc.psu.edu/~boris/