Re: alternatives to Adobe Reader

Allan Adler <ara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Thanks, guys, but I think you might have misread my question. I have xpdf
installed and it reads pdf files just fine. It won't read the files that
are downloaded as ebooks from the library, even though they have the
extension pdf. xpdf (2.02 on my system) encounters what it says is
encryption and asks for a password, which I don't have. This isn't
about replacing the Adobe Acrobat Reader. It is about replacing a different
program called Adobe Reader.

As I recall ebooks were purposely encrypted ( with a trivial incompetent
encryption). Adobe complained to the government that a company in Russia
had revealed that triviality and incompetence of the encryption. One of the
memeber of the company was arrested and jailed under DMCA for engaging in
studying or breaking encryption designed to protect the copyright of the
company. So, you are asking people to break the law. (I wish it were a
joke).



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