Is there a way to download adobe document viewer files?

File is an on-line publication.

It opens the publication in a pop-up window and has controls for paging forward or backward or printing but only to a printer, not "print to file". The pop-up window has no menu controls so no "save as" option.

Player is Flashplayer 11,2,202,235 on Firefox on Ubuntu.

Video file grabbers like unplug and download helper do not work because it is not a video file.

Command line app "get-flash-videos" does not work either.

I can get a screenshot but that is a slow & awkward method & the quality is not good.

Googling anything with "download" & "flashplayer" in the search just gets 57,000 hits on how to install flashplayer or something absurdly basic from ask.com. Google sure has gone downhill in recent years. (end of mini-rant)

What are you calling " adobe document viewer files " i have never heard of them

It is called a pdf file

that is a document viewer and almost every Linux distro has one installed by default


flash IS NOT a pdf

you do not use a flash video tool for a pdf

ok now we are talking about a movie and not a document ????????

an NOW we are into the terminal ??????????????????????????????????????
i am lost and i think everyone else is to



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the last post before today was in 2010

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No, an on line publication is not necessarily a .pdf file and yes, the viewer used is Flashplayer, not the linux document viewer which must download the file before it can display it.

The problem is not being able to download the file.

See screenshot:



and another screenshot of the only menu available in the pop-up window