Re: Applesoft Reference Manual -- Blue Book

[Jerry <awanderin@yahoo.ca>]

pitz <pitz.wong@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jul 13, 1:10 pm, sc...@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)
> wrote:
>> In article <86add00d-cae2-4f61-ba0d-39ed6fcb5...@h8g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
>>
>> bill.mart...@gmail.com <bill.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >The Blue Book is now available online for download.  Thanks to the
>> >efforts of Doc. Weyhrich and Brian Wiser,  this historical document is
>> >now available in very readable and OCR'ed PDF format.
>>
>> >You can download the book from the Virtual Apple ][ website at
>> >http://www.virtualapple.org/manuals/apple_plus_manuals.html
>>
>> Cool...but it doesn't open in Preview.  Adobe Reader will open it, but it
>> says it's "secured."  It appears to still be printable and you can copy text
>> to the clipboard, so I'm not sure what purpose is served by encrypting the
>> file so that only Adobe Reader can open it.
>>
>> (Both the above are on my G4 mini running Tiger...haven't tested it
>> elsewhere yet.  I normally use Preview for opening PDFs because it's not
>> nearly as bloated as Adobe Reader.)
>>
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>
> "Securing" a PDF document with certain permissions implies that it can
> only be read by later versions of readers (I can't remember which
> versions started with the capability).  In this case, it still allows
> you to save the file, open, or print it -- it just won't allow
> modification of the file.
>
> I don't use permissions, but I respect the intention of those who do.
> Note that PDF passwords/permissions are quite easy to break anyway.

Another note, it opens fine with xpdf 3.02 (and acroread 9.3.2) on Linux.

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