Hi Charles,
Not sure if it is something that would suit - but Chrome has it's own
built in PDF reader which I have used in the past by browsing the file
system with it. eg: On windows I would browse to
file:///C:/Users/Mark/Downloads/ and open the PDF from there. (You
could also try doing Print>PDF from within Chrome to see if that saves
it as a compatible format?)
Not sure if you prefer Chromium (full free) vs Chrome - but a quick
search found that this:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm
is available for Chromium which utilizes pdf.js to display them.
Cheers,
Mark
On 2014-02-26 19:51, Charles MacDonald wrote:
A web site that I often visit to get technical information has started
to use ADOBE 10 to compress the Scans of Manuals that they sell.
OCULAR asks for a password for these documents and then says it can't
open them. The Fellow behind the web site of course does not
understand why I just don't download the closed source reader, citing
abobe's claim that adobe 10 has less mallware. The folks who run the
site do see a legitimate benefit in that the Adobe 10 apparently
manages to produce smaller files sizes.
I cringe any time I have to install anything from adobe (My bank
sometimes uses Acrobat for their forms) and delete it as soon as
possible. This would mean that I would have to do a multi-meg download
several times a week in order to access the file, and worry that the
format might not be readable when I want it in a couple of years.
IS there any trick to get the adobe 10 documents to behave as legal PDF
files?
{I suppose I could download the reader and Print to PDF, then delete
the reader, but that seems like going around in circles)
There is another site that also has been using it, but I have forgone
using the information there because of the same issue.
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