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I downloaded and installed Adobe Reader 7 for Linux from their ftp site. It's still not available in their main download page. I cannot read secure pdf ebooks. The option to register is also not there. Does anybody know how to register Adobe Reader?
Distribution: RH, FC 1-6, F 7-21, Debian, LinuxPPC, Knoppix, Ubuntu, Yellow Dog
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I thought there was an option under the Help menu to register Adobe. On a side-note, I am not sure if registration with Adobe is essential to read secure ebooks. Perhaps the ebooks were not meant to be used with Reader 7.0? Just guessing.
The reader isn't registering the file association yet. I removed reader 5 and set the file association to acroread 7.0. Its works better now with Firefox but there are still some issues with KDE. Regardless, for files "Open with" will work on SuSE 9.2.
The option to register is not there in the menu. The file association and integration with web browsers are handled by an executable program in Adobe reader installation. There is a readme file about that once you install the reader. The online help mentions ebooks. You need to register the reader to read secure ebooks. But the registration option and the plugin that handles secure ebooks don't seem to be availalbe in the v.7.0 for Linux. (I installed the RPM). The printing is also a dead end. You cannot select a printer. So printing is totally out. I tried XPDF, and almost all the other readers that handle pdf but they don't open secure ebooks. (Or atleast the versions I checked don't.) I saw that there is one open source reader that you can compile to ignore the secured pdf blah blah blah, so that all pdf files would open. Does anybody know where to get that?
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