PDF Readers for 8.6 & 9.x

[avw]

There are some PDF writers out there like Jaws, Print to PDF, ... but I wonder if there are any PDF viewers in existance, beside Acrobat Reader because I´ve never heard about one. Do you know any alternative PDF viewers?

 

[LCGuy]

I just use Adobe Reader 5, I find it still reads just about any PDF you throw at it.

 

[avw]

I just use Adobe Reader 5, I find it still reads just about any PDF you throw at it.

I also use Acrobat Reader 5, as I don´t know any other reader.
But the question was, if there is any other reader in existance, ...

 

[macgeek417]

I just use Adobe Reader 5, I find it still reads just about any PDF you throw at it.

I also use Acrobat Reader 5, as I don´t know any other reader.
But the question was, if there is any other reader in existance, ...

um... yeah!

Foxit PDF Reader

Preview (Did no one else think of this?)

etc...

 

[avw]

Foxit for MacOS 9 ??

 

[tomlee59]

Um...no. I guess he didn't read the subject line, and didn't realize that the OP was asking very specifically about 8.6 and 9.x-compatible alternative PDF readers. AFAIK, there aren't any, but would be delighted to learn otherwise.

 

[macgeek417]

oops...

 

[Scott Baret]

I have Photoshop Elements 2.0 for OS 9 (not sure if it works on earlier versions) and it reads PDFs.

 

[avw]

And finally, ... there is at least one further PDF reader for Mac OS 9

"MacGhostview" in version 3.2 from 2005. Shareware, and the developer himselve only offers OS X versions anymore, but it´s downloadable here:

http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~anderl/mac/macghostview32.sit.bin

workes pretty well at my G4

 

[phreakout]

IIRC, CanOpener will open and read PDFs. I could be wrong, though. It's a program designed to preview and open ANY file format. Even if the document was recovered from a hard drive crash, it will be able to let you view what's in it.

73s de Phreakout. :rambo: