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

[Rick DeNatale]

On 1/4/06, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Or perhaps even easier, print them to postscript files (IIRC this is
easy to do on the Mac) then run the ps files through ps2pdf on linux.

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Rick DeNatale

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