[TriLUG] OT - old Mac OS 9 PDF software search

[John Broome]

On 1/4/06, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> well... this is a OT... but I'm in a pickle.  I'm seeking an OLD copy
> of Adobe Acrobat 5 that will run on Mac OS 9 (9.2.4 or something like
> that, whatever the last update was).  I have Adobe Acrobat Pro 7 for
> OS X, but it will not run on the old OS 9, nor did an old Acrobat 6
> version I found.  Adobe won't sell us version 5.  I literally need to
> use this for 3 days to dump a bunch of Encore (sheet music software)
> files to PDF and then, the old OS 9 will be wiped clean, harddrive
> formatted, Encore obliterated.  (For those curious, I'm moving stuff
> to Sibelius on OS X... it can import from PDF, but not directly from
> Encore).  If anyone might be able to help, please reply off-list.


Just to bring this back to linux -- can you set up a PDF virtual
printer on samba and "print" them into PDFs from the OS9 machine?

You should be able to set that up on the ubuntu partition on your laptop.


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