I need to know something about SW apps' (such as Acrobat) interaction w/OS. Suppose I have a brand new OS that Adobe has not made any accomodations for. How easy/hard is it to be able to run something like acrobat (for viewing) running on that. Can a converter be written w/o having to contact Acrobat.
If someone can educate me about the OS interaction in general or point me in the right direction, that would be awesome!
2007-02-14 10:42:31 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
adobe just makes the most popular viewer and creator. the PDF format can be written and read with ghostscript and a PostScript converter. Currently they are available for these OSs: All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), OS Independent (Written in an interpreted language), Linux. see http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/
2007-02-22 08:52:24 · answer #1 · answered by BigJohnny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Microsoft has been keeping each Windows version backwards compatible with the previous. More or less. XP can be run in 2000, ME, 98, or 95 compatibility mode.
Acrobat reader is probably the commonest software that there is, so it will get a new compatible version long before any new OS is released.
2007-02-22 00:25:35 · answer #2 · answered by J C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋