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From: "Thomas Ward" <tward@bright.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Problems with pdf files.
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:41:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <005b01c19d01$222baba0$0100a8c0@tward> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201140714260.7270-100000@lbear>

Great! The US government would toss a blind guy in jail for wanting to
simply read a book he paid for, and stand behind a company that refuses to
make the book accessible.
Rather it is accessible as long as you have Acrobat Reader 5, upgrade to JFW
4.0, and are stuck to the Windows ball in chain.

it seams to me people should stop griping about Word documents which can be
converted easily, and find out a way to bitch out companies that stick to
formats like pdf and won't give a readible copy to the blind.

What is the name of the program that the guy made? It is probably out there
if a person looks hard enough.

----- Original Message -----
From: Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk@1tree.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: Problems with pdf files.


> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:
> > some pdf files will convert with no problem using pdftotext, but I have
some
> > Linux books from Sam's which simply will not convert. Trying to do so in
> > Adobe Acrobat  Reader didn't help.
> > when I inquired about it Sam's said they did that for copy protection.
Is
> > there anyway to force a pdf file into text when it has been secured?
>
> Well, there was a program written to unsecure the file. But the US
> government imprisoned the author for about five months a short while
> back. I don't know if you can find the program or not. And if you do,
> take heed to the fate of the author (and keep your mouth shut to avoid the
> same fate).
>
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
>
> Nowlan's Theory:
>         He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from
>         the next freeway exit.
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Thomas Ward
 ` Kirk Wood
   ` Thomas Ward [this message]
     ` David Poehlman
       ` Kirk Wood
         ` David Poehlman
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` BTBG
     ` Thomas Ward
       ` BTBG
       ` Janina Sajka
       ` Geoff Shang
       ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Steve Holmes
         ` Maurice A. Mines
         ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Maurice A. Mines
             ` Geoff Shang
               ` Thomas Ward
               ` David Poehlman
                 ` Steve Holmes
                   ` David Poehlman
                   ` Kirk Wood
                     ` Amanda Lee
                       ` Kirk Wood
                         ` Amanda Lee
                           ` Kirk Wood
                             ` Shaun Oliver
                         ` Amanda Lee
                       ` David Poehlman
                         ` Amanda Lee
                           ` David Poehlman
                           ` Thomas Ward
                             ` Amanda Lee
                       ` Thomas Ward
                         ` David Poehlman
                         ` Amanda Lee
                           ` Janina Sajka
                       ` Janina Sajka
                       ` Geoff Shang
                         ` Janina Sajka
                           ` Amanda Lee
                             ` Janina Sajka
                             ` Janina Sajka
                             ` Janina Sajka
                               ` Geoff Shang
                             ` Geoff Shang
                           ` Geoff Shang
                             ` Thomas Ward
             ` Janina Sajka
         ` Janina Sajka
 ` Geoff Shang

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