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At 10:56 AM -0800 11/4/03, Kathy Tadlock wrote:
The library on campus has been noticing that long URL's for PDF documents won't print in Acrobat Reader 6.0 or Acrobat Pro 6.0. From the Adobe help desk, we have learned that 261 characters is the limit in 6.0. Apparently there is no limit in 5.0 so the Library is re-installing Acrobat Reader 5.0 on all it's walk-up data base stations.
That's certainly possible. Unlimited length URLs are a SERIOUS security hole due to "buffer overruns".
Now, why they picked 261 characters is beyond me...
The user cannot save the PDF to the workstation because of the database copyright restrictions. The articles can only be accessed and/or printed but not saved.
Of course they can save the PDFs. If the file is online, the file can be saved to disk...Just set your browser to not display PDFs inline, like Mac OS X is only to do.
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