PDF (Portable Document Format)

[chris@kiva.com (Chris Hansen)]

Merry KaTemas!  [and to all a good night?]

Since I originally sent this message to the wrong address and then my mail
program died, let us (me, myself, I) see if I can get it right...

----- the following message was originally sent on 7/21/95 -----

Greetings all (including lurkers),

Since this has been a recent topic, follows is a BRIEF description of the
Portable Document Format (PDF) designed and marketed by Adobe Systems and
widely accepted as a de facto cross-platform document standard.

PDF files are made for use with Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe Systems. 
Adobe Acrobat enables Macintosh, Windows, DOS and UNIX users to view, navigate
and print any PDF file received.  Reader version 2.0 is available for free
distribution to Macintosh and Windows users, and, with a special licensing
agreement, Reader 1.0 is available for free distribution to DOS and UNIX
users.  The Reader allows browsing using links, bookmarks, thumbnails and
article threads and printing.

Without verification of the site (dial up web access is from home, email from
work), the Web page where the no-cost application can be downloaded (along
with other information and PDF samples) is:

http://www.adobe.com/

which is where I downloaded by version.

Sorry for the spewing forth of commercial information (liberally lifted from
marketing materials).  I'll crawl back into my lurking hole....

Anyone interested in KaTemas along the Wasatch Mountains?  I have a location
(full of weeds, but...) or I am willing to travel (within reason, of course).

As a postscript, for those of you KaTe fans, check out Allison Kraus.  She is
not a KaTe close or even a sound-a-like, but I enjoy them both; perhaps you
will as well.

chris
the tired rambling one

(praise to [FILL IN FAVORITE DEITY(S) HERE] for caffeine!!!)

p.s.  For those of you keeping stats, I'm a past/present Rush and Kansas fan
(among multitude of others!!)... In fact, the same person who turned me on to
Kate Bush also turned me on to Rush - It must be a conspiracy!  Next thing you
know, some researcher will discover that Nixon didn't like either of them,
hence Watergate (provided for liberal skewing of time and space, of course). 
Nahhh.......