| R. A. Hettinga on Thu, 2 Aug 2001 05:24:11 +0200 (CEST) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> empire pdf (pdf empire) |
At 11:32 AM -0400 on 8/1/01, Laurent Oget wrote: > It is an ENCRYPTED PDF document No, once again, (and in a lower tone of voice :-)), the document in question, a PDF version of "Empire", was just a PDF document. If you have a PDF reader, and, like I said, there are *other* pdf readers out there besides Adobe's, even in open-source form, and free-as-in-beer or free-as-in-speech, I expect, and, if you want, you can read it withh one of those. In fact, someone *here* just converted it to text, right? I'm not a gambling man, bit I would bet, if I were, that *they* converted it without recourse to Adobe software. Again, the current cryptographer-in-jail flap is about the *e-book* software, that Adobe has put out, which is different from PDF. Same thing, but different. Apples and Oranges, or whatever. Hope that helps. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [email protected]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold