On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Don Simons wrote:
> If you look at figures 2.19 and 2.20 in
> http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/software/pmx/lcgpmx.pdf
> using Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, or the Acrobat plug-in, you may notice
> parts of some of the slurs to be missing.
>
> (cut)
>
> There is an issue here for the sheet music archive: Is there a need for some
> sort of warning about this to Joe General Visitor, who could innocently open
> a link to a pdf and see screwed up slurs on the screen? Since there hasn't
> been much (if any) noise about this in the past, I tend to think a warning
> isn't needed. But if the consensus is that we should have one, and if
> Christian is willing to do it, John suggested that some javascript could be
> written that would run every time someone clicks on a pdf in the archive.
> The script would first look for a cookie that had been set on an earlier
> visit to any pdf in the archive. If it found one, then it would exit and
> display the pdf, and the visitor would not know the difference. If not, it
> would set the cookie, then display a popup with instructions about disabling
> the Greeking, and also explain that the popup will not appear again if you
> accept cookies.
>
> --Don Simons
>
>
>
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As others have already written, the Acrobat 5.0 reader is OK in this
--- IF you set "greek ... off" in the 'preferences'; and that is
indeed possible in the reader as well.
Because the remedy for the problem is so simple, I support the idea
of the popup window (as determined with a cookie)! Anything that
might discourage newcomers from using the archive should be avoided
(if that's not too much trouble).
ccn.
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