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OS/2 - Technical => Applications => Topic started by: RobertM on 2007.06.23, 23:00:16

Title: eBook Reader needed - Here is a workaround until then!
Post by: RobertM on 2007.06.23, 23:00:16
Hey all,

I recently bought a "PDF" online - a programming tutorial. Unfortunately, the document delivered was not a true PDF. It was an encrypted/password protected eBook. After no response from the company who sold it, I ended up having to load and register it on a Windows machine - and then print all 529 pages as I rarely use the Windows machine (except for website testing under IE).

Anyway, I'm hoping there will be (or maybe is?) an eBook reader available for OS/2 soon. Could a plugin or plugin modification for Lucide be written?


So... after getting tired of referring to hard copy and manually typing in the code snippets I was supposed to be trying through the various lesson sections, I had an idea that allows me to view this PDF on OS/2... keep in mind, I am using this technique to grant myself (the owner/licensor of the PDF/eBook) access - I am not (doing or suggesting) using this as a method to circumvent the document protection of documents you dont have the right to view (which I dont think would work anyway because of the first steps required)...


You do NOT need a Postscript printer to do this. If you do NOT have a Postscript printer (or your PS printer is black and white, meaning the driver may be set to grey-scale your documents for print), then simply go to HP's site, look up the Color Laserjet 4600, and select the POSTSCRIPT drivers for XP - there are multiple driver options, and only that one (or the massive package containing the PS drivers and all the rest) will work.






You MUST do these next steps in order BEFORE trying to "Convert" to a PDF using PDFWrite (otherwise PDFWrite will tell you the original document was encrypted and PDFWrite will refuse to write a PDF on that basis - all other convert formats I have tried work though):



ON THE eCS/WARP MACHINE (unless you have a working GS install on XP):


You now have a working, readable PDF file.

Hope that helps anyone having problems with eBooks... of course, it still does require another machine running XP, or XP running in a Virtual Session on the Warp machine... but at least for a bunch of us with access to (or ownership of) an XP machine, we'll be able to convert (to regular PDFs) and use our eBooks.


-Robert
Title: Re: eBook Reader needed - Here is a workaround until then!
Post by: RobertM on 2007.06.30, 07:50:48
So... does anyone have any ideas about an eBook plugin or reader that will run under OS/2?
Title: Re: eBook Reader needed - Here is a workaround until then!
Post by: rudi on 2007.06.30, 16:51:57
Not likely to happen. Adobe has it's hands on the encryption technology and
I don't think they are going to do an OS/2 version...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/08/02/sklyarov.DTL