John, In PDFs you can sometimes do a SAVE AS command and save it as text. It is not pretty (no formatting) but you could get the information to paste to somewhere else.
Lizette -----Original Message----- >>> McKown, John Wrote > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills > Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 8:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Bookshelves under BookMangler > > > I can't very well access that file from a DVD or CD-ROM > > I don't know what that means. Can you be more specific? > You're sitting at a > PC(?) that is connected to the Internet(?). You need data > that you can cut > and paste into a ___ (?). > > Charles Due to the way that IBM has generated the PDF, you cannot cut from it. Apparently it is an image type PDF, not a text PDF. This may explain IBM's apparent discontinuing of bookmanager books. You can cut from them. Which IBM might think contributes to possible copyright violation. So the image format PDF is a form of DRM. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
