Post AurKdHvGPCcLbPaiDQ by Thorsted@digipres.club
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 (DIR) Post #AurFYzu6xNSIn1Be5I by foone@digipres.club
       2025-06-06T15:33:58Z
       
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       hmm. I wonder how forwards compatible adobe acrobat is. I've got a PDF from 2010 that I want to print from a windows 95 machine
       
 (DIR) Post #AurGKZUwR8A0nE6CPo by foone@digipres.club
       2025-06-06T15:42:37Z
       
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       I could plug a newer computer into my dot matrix printer but where's the fun in that?
       
 (DIR) Post #AurIzj4lvlekHObtIG by RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange
       2025-06-06T16:12:28Z
       
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       @foone I think no.
       
 (DIR) Post #AurK4MgAjF8mDesacC by Thorsted@digipres.club
       2025-06-06T16:24:26Z
       
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       @foone What version of PDF? That may be the deciding factor.
       
 (DIR) Post #AurKSZl1kttNjNhA4e by foone@digipres.club
       2025-06-06T16:28:58Z
       
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       @Thorsted 1.5, it seems. but I could probably downgrade it with ghostscript, I think?
       
 (DIR) Post #AurKdHvGPCcLbPaiDQ by Thorsted@digipres.club
       2025-06-06T16:30:50Z
       
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       @foone 1.5 was Acrobat 6, which was released in 2003, so as long as Acrobat 6 or later is installed you should be fine.
       
 (DIR) Post #AurL0KhsDjzethJhEu by foone@digipres.club
       2025-06-06T16:35:02Z
       
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       @Thorsted damn. it turns out acrobat 5 is the last one to support win95. I'll have to figure out how to downgrade it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AurLWtNSqoK3h4IPEe by foone@digipres.club
       2025-06-06T16:40:52Z
       
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       @gabboman @Thorsted I downgraded it with ghostscript:gs -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -o out.pdf in.pdf
       
 (DIR) Post #AurLnM9xbhBHaqpXRA by Thorsted@digipres.club
       2025-06-06T16:43:54Z
       
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       @foone You could simply change the header to say 1.4 and see what happens!
       
 (DIR) Post #AutghR7UjraOaqcCsi by foone@digipres.club
       2025-06-07T19:47:34Z
       
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       @Thorsted I'd be more willing to experiment if this PDF wasn't gonna take 12 floppy disks to transfer over to my windows 95 machine!which also makes me realize that's way too big. I'm only gonna be printing on a oki microline 320, I can probably save on disks by pre-scaling the pdf to a lower resolution