> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Sawer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 2:42
> To: Han-Wen Nienhuys
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Mutopia website pre-launch announcment

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> > * We can make a statement if we don't link Adobe's (proprietary
> >   software!) website.  Isn't there a free Windows PDF viewer?
>
> I'll investigate this - I don't have a Windows machine, however, so
> testing whether any particular viewer works well with Lilypond output
> could be a problem.
>
> >   Doesn't ghostview also do PDF?
>
> Yes, but apparently Ghostscript is quite complicated to install for
> Windows. As I've said, I'll look into this point.

Not at all. It is available from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ and comes as
a single executable file that simply needs to be run to install it on your
system. It's very straightforward. It does a fine job of displaying pdf
files, and a fair job of converting .ps to .pdf, too.

Glen Prideaux

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