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Re: Bowditch Edition 2002 -- Online files are problematic
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2002 Oct 7, 11:51 +0100
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2002 Oct 7, 11:51 +0100
Mike Wescott wrote- >jared.sherman@verizon.net said: >> Chapters 1, 10, 15, 21, 25, 31, 35, and BowditchIX are apparently >> either corrupt, locked, or Acrobat 5.0 format with the "3.0/4.0 >> compatibility" feature turned off. They can be downloaded >> directly--but Acrobat 4.x will not recognize them as valid PDF files. > >> If anyone else if thinking of downloading them, wait. I've asked the >> NIMA webmaster to look into this and correct them. > >But Adobe's Acrobat Reader 5 is available for download and installation >(for free). Why press for backwards compatibility? > > >-- > Mike Wescott > Wescott_Mike@EMC.COM ============== Well, seeing that Mike asked, here's one reason. On my (now very elderly) Mac, equivalent to a Mac LC3, running system 7.5, Acrobat Reader 5 refuses to install, although there's no problem with version 4. This has prevented my access to several PDF documents. George Huxtable. ------------------------------ george@huxtable.u-net.com George Huxtable, 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. Tel. 01865 820222 or (int.) +44 1865 820222. ------------------------------
