Re: Ugh! .pdf's require Winblows!

"bgeer" <bgeer_at_xmission.com> wrote in message news:blcpj1$bdn$1_at_terabinaries.xmission.com...
> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> writes:
>
> >"bgeer" <bgeer_at_xmission.com> wrote in message
> >news:bl9mmf$m76$2_at_terabinaries.xmission.com...
> >> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> writes:
> >>
> >> What's "dubious" about Oracle endorsed classes? Given that the Intro
to
> >> SQL & DBA Fund I .pdf's worked just fine in older Adobe & xpdf, what
> >> "keys to the kingdom" are they trying to protect by making the DBA
> >> Fund II docs unreadable except on a Winblows machine? Doesn't make
> >> any more sense than your "dubious circumstances" comment.--
>
> >Maybe I misread you. I was noting that you said that the PDF's were
marked
>
> >"Each page has
> >"Oracle Internal & OAI Use Only" watermarked on each page" and that they
> >were "loaned" to you which suggests to me that they are not intended as
take
> >home materials. Obviously if they are intended as a take home from the
class
> >and there is nothing in the open source world that will read version 5
or 6
> >.pdfs then fair comment.
>
>
> The .pdf's were supplied to us for the duration of the class, a
> typical US autumn semester of 4 months, with no restriction on where
> we read them. The restriction, hence my use of "loaned", is that we
> do not allow anyone to copy the .pdf's. The Oracle Academic
> Initiative is a program designed to give students access to Oracle
> training without a huge price. It's a good program, I have a great
> instructor, & I comply with that restriction.

Then I retract the suggestion that you obtained them in dubious circumstances.

Others have shown that there are perfectly valid ways of reading later version .pdfs on Linux and that your issue with windows is nothing to do with Oracle or Acrobat Reader but just to do with the Plugin.

-- 
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK