> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Compton, John > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8:55 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Impossible? convert PDF to Book/Manager format? > > > *Deep sigh* > One part of me says "So what? It's no skin off my nose that certain > publishers get to know which of their books I read" - and I > could probably > agree to a certain amount of commercial sense in the idea, if > I thought > about it for even a short while. > > The other side of me gets really upset at this kind of thing. > How *DARE* > people like Adobe make this of information available to > someone else without > telling me? The books I read are entirely my own choice and > no business of > anyone else unless I make a positive effort to let the publisher know.
I wouldn't mind this. However, I do think that it should be legally required (where?) for the "person" distributing such a book to disclose the fact that they are using this feature. > > It's exactly this kind of 'hidden loophole' stuff that makes > the Web so > scary to the uninitiated. > > John Use "xpdf" and "don't worry, be happy". Of course, it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the Adobe READER. And I cannot guarantee that it can read every PDF that Adobe can. But, so far, it has been able to read every PDF that I have tried it with. And, being the nasty person that I am, I can use "xpdf" to "print" the book to a Postscript file. I can then take that Postscript file and use "ps2pdf" to create an "uninfected" pdf. Of course, I could possibly lose a lot of functionality in this process. "ps2pdf" works fairly well, but you cannot do any of the fancy stuff, like internal links and suchlike. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its' content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
