Problems with pdf files.

[Steve Holmes]

Optacon? The last one I had cost over $4000! It'll be a cold day in hell
before I could afford something like that. Yes, Optacons fill a unique
nich which just doesn't get filled with current technology.  Key here is
getting around copy-protection. I really fault Adobe systems on this one.
Surely, there's gotta be a way to expose PDF text to the reader with or
with out a password The notion that the MSAA features for the Acrobat
reader are excluded from protected documents is totally stupid and Adobe
should have never come up with this infiror design flaw!!!

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, David Poehlman wrote:

> there may soon be a new optacon.  I hope it will acces directly with a
> pc and also hope that a method of using it with linux is devised.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang at uq.net.au>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:24 AM
> Subject: Re: Problems with pdf files.
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Maurice A. Mines wrote:
>
> > is this person a colage student herein the us? if he is he shud be
> asking
> > fore reader services. thats how I get round this problem.
>
> I don't mean to offend anybody, but this is just not good enough.  It
> seems
> stupid in this day and age to have to get a sighted person to read you
> something that was produced electronically and I for one wouldn't stand
> for
> it.  It's bad enough that sighted people ask you if you have someone who
> can see to read it to you, heaven forbid that we have blind people
> advocating the same thing.
>
> OK OK, so if you really need access to something, at least it gets the
> job
> done.  but I'd be persuing many other avenues first.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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