On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 19:15 +0100, Roel Schroeven wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 17:20 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > >>I have a Canon A40 digital camera. I've mislaid the user;s manual so I > >>downloaded a PDF version from Canon. This can only be read with Acrobat > >>6.0, which is not available for Linux. Earlier versions, and also xpdf, > >>show "COPY" on every page. > >> > >>Thank you, Canon. I shall _not_ but another Canon camera. > > > > > > Jeez, I think you're overreacting a bit. Reader 6.0 has been out > > for a while now. Is it any wonder that companies are generating > > PDFs for it? > > I think the problem is not that Canon made a PDF for Reader 6.0, but > that they added some kind of copy protection that is only supported by > Reader 6.0. Which, IMO, is quite stupid since there is no need to copy > protect those manuals.
One word: lawyers. Killing all the lawyers would be a very bad thing, so lets just kill 80% of them. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. There is no "right of journalists to keep sources confidential" in US Constitutional law.
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