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Postscript / PDF readers |
Recent
versions
of
Ghostscript/Ghostview
are
fairly
easy
to
set
up.
For
old
klunky
versions,
see
Installing
Ghostscript
/
Ghostview
for
Win32
-
a
guide
by
Nelson
Beebe. Aladdin Ghostscript v6.0 includes gsprint.exe - a program which allows twoup printing (two pages per physical page). |
Acrobat
File
Reader
from
Adobe [f2.org copy of Acrobat Reader 5.1 - English for Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP (8.5 Mbyte)] | |
Djvu Viewers |
WinDjView
and
MacDjView
lets
you
view
DjVu
documents
under
windows
/
mac. [f2.org copy of WinDjView 0.5 for WinXP (508 Kbyte) -- see website for Win98 version] Save
the
.exe
file
to
some
convenient
directory
and
run
it. |
PDF Generators |
PrimoPDF
lets
you
generate
PDF
documents
from
any
windows
application
by
'printing'
to
the
PrimoPDF
printer
driver.
Lots
of
optimisation
features. [f2.org copy of PrimoPDF for Win98/ME/NT/Vista (14 Mbyte)] |
HTML to Postscript | html2ps is a perl-script which converts HTML to postscript. There are options to print multiple pages per physical page, number pages etc. |
MS Word viewer |
Microsoft
has
free
Word
Viewers
which
(surprise!)
allow
you
to
view
MS
Word
documents.
The
viewers
don't
run
macros,
so
they're
MS-virus-free! [f2.org copy of Word 97/2000 Viewer for Windows 95/98/NT (3.8 Mbyte)] |
MS PowerPoint viewer |
Microsoft
has
a
free
PowerPoint
Viewer. [f2.org copy of PowerPoint 97/2000/2002 Viewer for Windows 95/98/2K/NT (2.8 Mbyte)] |
Word processing |
OpenOffice
is
a
free
open-source
office
suite
for
Windows/Linux/Solaris,
based
on
Sun's
StarOffice
6.0
code.
NB!
Downloads
are
around
80 Mbyte. Star Office from Sun Computers is a free alternative to MS Office products. Also runs under Linux. Note: [2003-01-31] Sun no longer supports Star Office 5.2. It's successor, Star Office 6.0, is not free for personal use. Old versions of Star Office 5.2 can be found on the net under the filenames
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AbiWord from AbiSource is another free word processing system | |
Print graph / music paper |
The
site
http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/
offers
web
pages
that
will
generate
PDFs
for
graph
paper,
music
paper
etc
to
your
specifications.
Caters
for
US
&
metric
paper
sizes. Another page, http://www.printerinks.com/graph-paper-and-more-fun-printable-stuff.html, links the graphpaper / music-paper site above, plus some other resources (blank maps for colouring in, customisable calendars etc). WARNING: this page won't display anything at all unless javascript is enabled, and the linked pages are displayed in pop-up windows which hide the real destination site. I used to have carry a link to Win32 software by Dr Philippe Marquis (http://perso.easynet.fr/~philimar/graphpapeng.htm), but more recent versions of the software were shareware, not freeware, and attempts to view that page have been timing out recently. |
PalmDoc Ebook reader |
DocReader
by
Mike
Pickering
lets
you
read
PDB
(PalmDoc
Ebook
format)
documents
and
convert
them
to
text. [f2.org copy of DocReader 0.69 (257 Kbyte)] |
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