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The library does not want them to save the PDF's, or the library will be in violation of its licensing agreement with the database. They will not enable or change anything that would allow the student to save the article. The database license permits article level linking, but nothing else. Can you go into Acrobat and change the 261 limit to something else, 400 or whatever is the most lengthy URL the library can find in their database? KT -----Original Message----- From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PDF] Long URL's The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ 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. Leonard -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Leonard Rosenthol <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax) To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
