Can anyone explain exactly what PDF is. Most importantly, how it relates to postscript? My under standing is that it is a data format, optimized for representing documents. It is a binary format, and not only stores the document text, but font info, formatting info, links, bookmarks, and other objects like images and sound. It does include security/encryption provisions. Can anyone be more complete? I'm trying to get a handle on accessibility and understand more about the relationship between postscript and PDF. Rich Caloggero MIT ATIC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:43 PM Subject: Re: Hardware Question > Yeah, he should look at the bios first. However, my intention was to get the jumpers set first, see if it works as is, then if not, yes, do check the bios. I avoided the secondary controller option, because most 486 machines I've seen had to ide ports, that were in fact the one and only controller. So, I didn't want to totally confuse him, if this happened to be the case with his motherboard. > Greg > > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:34:32PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > > > You need to set a jumper on the hard drive as master (I've also seen some older drives where there was a master with slave option, use that if your drive has such a setting). You also need to set your cd-rom drive's jumper to slave. Hth. > > > Greg > > ok, just to add to this, you'll need to check your cmos/bios setings to > > ensure that your drives are being detected correctly. > > it's not just a matter of setting the jumpers and hoping for the best. > > this is where alot of people go wrong. > > if possible put the cdrom on a seperate ide controler and I personally > > would set it as secondary master. I will stand to be corrected on this but > > if that doesn't work, slave it to your hard drive as either a primary > > slave on the primary ide controler or as a secondary slave on the > > secondary ide controler. > > please feel free to correct me anyone as I don't always get things right. > > -- > > qShaun Oliver > > > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > > -- Roger Price > > > > Email: shauno at goanna.net.au > > Icq: 76958435 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >