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

[David McDowell]

John... close, but no, I don't feel like setting it up... though I did
save those directions from the thread a few months ago.  It is EASIEST
to just have the actual product for a couple days.  I'm efficient in
my laziness thanks very much!  :)

Rick... OS 9 print to .ps files?  Well, OS X can pretty much do PDF
straight up.  I'm not sure about OS 9's abilities.  It's an
interesting thought though, fortunately someone responded so... I'm
good to go.  Thanks folks!  :)

David McD


On 1/4/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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