From: system@SendSpamHere.ORG
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 3:19 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Java PDF viewer... how?

In article <387B3C24.4B5AACA2@iskp.uni-bonn.de>, Harald van Pee <pee@iskp.uni-bonn.de> writes:
>by the way, my pagefile quota is 600000 blocks!
>maybe this can help I have used it for me:
>1. be sure you have setup java
> @sys$manager:JAVA$SETUP.COM
>2. show log classpath
>3. (if you use jdk116)
>   assign
>"/sys$common/java/lib/JDK116_CLASSES.ZIP:.:/dev/path/install.zip -
>   classpath
>4. java install
>
>  (you must have set the display)
>  in the program use unix syntax, be sure you can create pathes like
> com/adobe/acrobat/resources/icons/default/
> in your AdobeAcrobatViewer directory (or use the root of the disk
> AdobeAcrobatViewer)
>5. you end up with /AdobeAcrobatViewer/ACROBAT.JAR
>  and some other files, the viewer will not start (at least for me)!
>6. cd dev:[AdobeAcrobatViewer]
>7. jar -xvf ACROBAT.JAR
>8. assign
>"/sys$common/java/lib/JDK116_CLASSES.ZIP:.:/dev/ADOBEACROBATVIEWER/" -
> classpath
>9. java "com.adobe.acrobat.Viewer"
>10. if you have problems with "out of memory" errors use
>  java -mx16m "com.adobe.acrobat.Viewer"
>  (sometimes I need -mx64m), the viewer eats a lot of memory


I did get the Java PDF viewer to run.  David Mathog is right!  What a pig.

It's slow and lumbers along!  I also tried to print the OpenVMS Times PDF
file.  One hour and forty minutes later and 2+ million blocks of .PS file
later, I aborted the process!  This on an AS200 4/233 with 384MB of memory
and a free RZ29B.

You can keep Java and the Java PDF viewer.  If this is *the* answer to the
need for a PDF viewer on VMS, then there is no answer! 

BTW, How is anybody to know this incantation?

$ java "com.adobe.acrobat.Viewer"

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