[OT] Adobe Reader 6 Crippleware?

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Am I missing a setting or is Adobe Reader 6 crippleware? Whenever I load a
document from the web and try to save it I get the save to dialog, give the
file a name and then hit Save and get an error message that "this operation
is not permitted".
 
Colonel Blip said:
Am I missing a setting or is Adobe Reader 6 crippleware?
Whenever I load a document from the web and try to save it I get
the save to dialog, give the file a name and then hit Save and
get an error message that "this operation is not permitted".
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Adobe Reader 6 here, and I don't see the problem you're encountering.

Have you tried different PDF files on the web? Maybe the one you are
trying is protected from being saved, I can imagine that this is one
of the protection mechanisms provided by Acrobat...

Regards,
Wald
 
Am I missing a setting or is Adobe Reader 6 crippleware? Whenever I load a
document from the web and try to save it I get the save to dialog, give the
file a name and then hit Save and get an error message that "this operation
is not permitted".
Click to expand...

Sometimes I think this is locked in the document itself. If you want to
save a PDF and it has a normal link text you click on, use the right mouse
menu and choose "save link target as ..."
 
Why do you think they call it Adobe READER?

Anyway, if you find a link to a PDF file, don't left-click it. Instead,
right-click it and select Save from the menu.
 
I understand the workaround, since that is what I am doing. However, this
has not been required with previous versions. Are you saying you can not
Save a Copy from within AR?
 
Colonel Blip said...
I understand the workaround, since that is what I am doing. However, this
has not been required with previous versions. Are you saying you can not
Save a Copy from within AR?
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My copy of AR6 saves them just fine from the icon on the toolbar at the
left. Perhaps the message you are seeing is a function of a protected
document(s) rather than the reader you are using?

The only bitches I've got about AR6 is that it takes forever to load and
likes to (try to) access the web every time it opens.
 
Lurksalot said:
Colonel Blip said...
My copy of AR6 saves them just fine from the icon on the toolbar at
the left. Perhaps the message you are seeing is a function of a
protected document(s) rather than the reader you are using?

The only bitches I've got about AR6 is that it takes forever to load
and likes to (try to) access the web every time it opens.
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.... and that it resides in memory even after it has been closed. I know,
turn off browser integration, but I _do_ like browser integration, so...
agh, sigh.

I recently installed Reader 4.05 again instead of 6, and it did
*WONDERS*: fast loading times, three times smaller memory use that cleans
up afterwards, and not a single PDF it can't open.
But alas, I still have to find a way to save PDF files from 4.05 as
Colonel Blip describes. Not being able to do that is indeed very
annoying, so I'm back to Reader 6 now, despite the bloat.

Regards,
Wald
 
Lurksalot <[email protected]> wrote:
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I recently installed Reader 4.05 again instead of 6, and it did
*WONDERS*: fast loading times, three times smaller memory use that cleans
up afterwards, and not a single PDF it can't open.
But alas, I still have to find a way to save PDF files from 4.05 as
Colonel Blip describes. Not being able to do that is indeed very
annoying, so I'm back to Reader 6 now, despite the bloat.
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Version 5 is much faster than 6 (but probably it is slower than 4):
maybe you can try the 5 version.

Simone
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And said:
Am I missing a setting or is Adobe Reader 6 crippleware?
Whenever I load a document from the web and try to save it
I get the save to dialog, give the file a name and then hit
Save and get an error message that "this operation is not
permitted".
Click to expand...

AR6 is so wretched, I'd call it "BUGware".


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I may very well go back. I no longer use it as a plug in and I wonder if
that might be part of the problem I'm having.
 
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