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Re: Reading Impression files without Impression?

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From: Ray Dawson
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 00:00
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In article <na.f32f2c499c.a80290mijassw@argonet.co.uk>, John Evans
<mijassw@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <na.0b9311499b.a80120awestern@argonet.co.uk>, Andrew Weston
> <awestern@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, Does anybody know if there is any way at all of reading
> > Impression Publisher files (filetype &BC5 IIRC) without investing in
> > the package? I am trying to read the documentation supplied with an
> > application but there is no text copy.
> >
>   I have just started sending documentation in Adobe pdf as well as
> Impression.  To do this I printed the Impression dicument to file using
> a Postscript driver and then used Cerilica Riscript to convert to the
> pdf format.  This can then be read easily by !pdf which is in the
> public domain.

I must admit that I've used Taborca to send some Ovation Pro documents as
.pdf files. PC users have been able to view them using Acrobat, and it
works quite well.

The only thing is that Taborca does produce massive files for even simple
documents - it must have been written by an ex-M$ software writer :-)

Cheers,

Ray D

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Ray Dawson
ray@magray.freeserve.co.uk
MagRay - the print & braille specialists
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From: Ray Dawson <Ray@magray.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Reading Impression files without Impression?
Date: 2000/03/09
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