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To: George Dawson who wrote (9718)	12/19/1999 5:31:00 PM
From: russet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I suffered a similar problem a few months back. Adobe was not reading files I downloaded from the internet. My browser and operating system had been acting up a few months earlier, so I got some good advice on these threads to download the latest versions and updates of those,...solved all my problems. So I figured I would go to the Adobe site and get the latest version of free software. It solved the problem. Now I don't get the error messages you are getting. Not sure it will help, but it does seem all software in our hard drives degrade over time, probably due to electrical spikes, or the crashes that occur from time to time. Not sure 4.05 will help with the postscript files you are talking about but I'm hoping for you that it might. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

To: George Dawson who wrote (9718)	12/19/1999 7:57:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

A Postscript (.ps) file has nothing to do with an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file. Postscript is a page-description language created by Adobe that requires a licensed interpreting program from Adobe (or a clone). For the most part those programs are found only inside the brains of printers. The Acrobat "Portable Document Format" is a different way of describing pages that's designed for viewing onscreen. Both systems are from Adobe; otherwise, neither is related to or compatible with the other. If you want to view a PostScript file on your screen, try <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/>, which is the home page for the Ghost family of products, one of which, GSView, ought to be able to give you what you're looking for. But the short answer is that PostScript was never designed to be viewed on-screen (exception: Display PostScript, which NeXT computers used), and it's very expensive to include an Adobe PostScript interpreter with a browser or word processor, so you're not going to see them displaying PostScript.