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For all their guff on http://www.eg8forum.com/en/accessibility/ about making it accessible, you still have to download the PDF via the Flash "app".
It all looks like the sort of shiny UI that is necessary when your key customers are heads of state and the like - frequently clueless about and impatient with technology.

Anyone actually read it? It's still downloading

You could have included a link to the actual book in question...

http://www.eg8forum.com/ebook/

You must be new here. Summaries on Slashdot aren't for providing actual information. Summaries on Slashdot are for idiotic and uninformed ranting.

itchythebear (2198688)

Ah, I see you are (and, by the way, holy crap! Slashdot user IDs are nearing the 2.2 million mark!).

It is also possible to access the PDF from http://www.eg8forum.com/ebook/data/document.pdf (21MB) ...which is definitely quotable... and linkable... and on a website

hmmmm

Swing and a miss!

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From the html source here's the direct link to the pdf. LINK

I still don't see the point. Even ignoring the fact that there's a "save as PDF" option at the top of the Flash animation, what would be the point of preventing regular people from, say, copy&pasting from this document? It seems like one guy didn't notice the PDF option and wrote a story for the Wall Street Journal about it with an interview from someone not very knowledgeable about this system. This is why I hate journalists, as a rule: shoddy reporting is harmful and prevalent.

(Here's the PDF download link. It's 21.2 MB (lots of pictures) which might explain why they opted for a flash book format. Also, you *can* link to specific pages. Here's page 34.)

I still don't see the point. Even ignoring the fact that there's a "save as PDF" option at the top of the Flash animation, what would be the point of preventing regular people from, say, copy&pasting from this document? It seems like one guy didn't notice the PDF option and wrote a story for the Wall Street Journal about it with an interview from someone not very knowledgeable about this system. This is why I hate journalists, as a rule: shoddy reporting is harmful and prevalent.

(Here's the PDF download link. It's 21.2 MB (lots of pictures) which might explain why they opted for a flash book format. Also, you *can* link to specific pages. Here's page 34.)

Here is the dastardly flash file in question. Pretty straightforward? Rather nice, actually? Scrolling and enlarging is functional and intuitive? My machine is ancient, yet it handled things quite well. Naturally, it won't cross the walled garden of Apple, but I suppose we all pay our little prices for our little vices.

If you are using NoScript, you get a list of HTML files, and no pictures.

Here is the PDF file. You can perform a copy and paste with no trouble? And if you have an impairment that prevents you from reading it, the file is accessible to your text-to-speech software.

The actual text of the files in question seems rather bland, really? There's nothing earth-shattering or unexpected, since the real meat & potatoes of each presentation was verbal, not written.

This post seems much ado about nothing.

Here is the dastardly flash file in question. Pretty straightforward? Rather nice, actually? Scrolling and enlarging is functional and intuitive? My machine is ancient, yet it handled things quite well. Naturally, it won't cross the walled garden of Apple, but I suppose we all pay our little prices for our little vices.

If you are using NoScript, you get a list of HTML files, and no pictures.

Here is the PDF file. You can perform a copy and paste with no trouble? And if you have an impairment that prevents you from reading it, the file is accessible to your text-to-speech software.

The actual text of the files in question seems rather bland, really? There's nothing earth-shattering or unexpected, since the real meat & potatoes of each presentation was verbal, not written.

This post seems much ado about nothing.

Or you can download it directly.

Seriously editors, did you even try to click around their site? Also who said you need any sort of plugin at all?

Even more to the point, who the hell wants to read this atrocity? It's like 90% pictures.

$ wget http://www.eg8forum.com/ebook/data/document.pdf?
--2011-06-13 12:15:12-- http://www.eg8forum.com/ebook/data/document.pdf?
Resolving www.eg8forum.com (www.eg8forum.com)... 4.27.18.126, 8.12.192.126, 209.84.14.126
Connecting to www.eg8forum.com (www.eg8forum.com)|4.27.18.126|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 22279675 (21M) [application/pdf]
Saving to: `document.pdf'
2011-06-13 12:15:16 (6.08 MB/s) - `document.pdf' saved [22279675/22279675]

Seriously editors, did you even try to click around their site? Also who said you need any sort of plugin at all?

Even more to the point, who the hell wants to read this atrocity? It's like 90% pictures.

$ wget http://www.eg8forum.com/ebook/data/document.pdf?
--2011-06-13 12:15:12-- http://www.eg8forum.com/ebook/data/document.pdf?
Resolving www.eg8forum.com (www.eg8forum.com)... 4.27.18.126, 8.12.192.126, 209.84.14.126
Connecting to www.eg8forum.com (www.eg8forum.com)|4.27.18.126|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 22279675 (21M) [application/pdf]
Saving to: `document.pdf'
2011-06-13 12:15:16 (6.08 MB/s) - `document.pdf' saved [22279675/22279675]

For those who don't want to use Flash, a PDF copy can be obtained here:

http://www.eg8forum.com/ebook/data/document.pdf

No idea why that's not linked from http://www.eg8forum.com/en/.

For those who don't want to use Flash, a PDF copy can be obtained here:

http://www.eg8forum.com/ebook/data/document.pdf

No idea why that's not linked from http://www.eg8forum.com/en/.

While you guys were herpin' and derpin', I found a PDF. For a tech site, you guys are pretty fucking un-technical.

You could have included a link to the actual book in question...

http://www.eg8forum.com/ebook/

Google tells me it is some sort of governmental meeting about the internet.

http://www.eg8forum.com/en/

Could the summary not have expended a sentence about this?