On Nov 28, 2005, at 11:23 AM, Al Poulin wrote:
Bruce and others, thank you for your answers in the earlier thread.
Is there an emulator without going for the full Virtual PC that can
deal with .exe ebook files which control access to .pdf files on a
CD? Is there a Macintosh-resident ebook reader that would do this?
If you can scrounge a Win98 or 95 disk, this one is free, but slow:
<http://cordney.com/QemuX/> I got Win98 running on my G4 with it.
I did the install by making a disk image of a Win98 installer disk
with Disk Utility, after renaming it from .dmg to .img, the install
went just fine. Slow, as I said. This didn't suit my needs as I
needed networking and couldn't figure out how to get it working under
OS X, but for your purposes it should work fine.
It turns out that the CDs are being produced with ebook generating
software from Visual Vision.
http://www.visualvision.com/
At their web site, the product name appears to be EBooksWriter.
http://www.ebookswriter.com/?vveng&&p=visualvision.com/
Idiots. All of that stuff: selective opening, no printing, etc is
built into Acrobat Pro.
The genealogy surname CDs that I could buy come with .exe software
to open the files from the CD and a version to install on a PC.
The tech guy at the genealogical society tells me that security on
the CD is about extraction of .pdf files.
I'd be tempted to tell them they just lost a sale; many sales,
perhaps, because there are a lot of folks with macs who do geneaology
stuff.
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