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http://www.planetpdf.com/codecuts/pdfs/ooc.pdf

Off is actually equivalent to block but ask. There are some (probably safe) scripted pdfs here if you want to clicky-clicky:

http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/article.asp?ContentID=6828

No, it doesn't move, you can't do animation at all, nor any cool transition. But I personaly think it's a plus side.

That's incorrect. Transitions in PDF have been around for years. Additionally, you can perform all sorts of fun javascript/multimedia stuff.

PDF Transitions Made Easy

With judicious use, transitions can be effective.

I am not vision impared, but I have also run across several other sites with thousands of free online classic stories. They were most likely not set up specifically for vision impared people. These are the websites that I have run across:

• Project Gutenberg
• Arthurs Classic Novels
• University of Virginia Library's Etext Center
• Baen Free Library
• Planet PDF Free PDF eBooks Archive

Even funnier, since the book he links to is freely available on the web as a PDF.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
http://www.planetpdf.com/

I've only used Adobe's reader.
I have used a free pdf maker, and it worked fine.

PDF of Java & C++ here:
http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/article.asp?Con tentID=6636

==- Shhh. I sorta miss the squiggly letters.

First, Adobe has a guy arrested, and then tried under the DMCA, for having the gall to crack the PDF format, which Adobe voilated the DMCA by embedding other font vendors' information into.

Now, even though someone has broken an ineffective encryption method, they can't use the files due to the DMCA. Maybe they'll just keep buying companies until they have all the IP they need? :)

PDF is the format that should be used for distributing books. It's the best way to give the user one file that ensures both a good softcopy experience as well as hardcopy.

If you want to extract text out of a PDF then use something here.

Adobe's flagship product is Acrobat. They make much more money off Acrobat than Photoshop.

...or visit India to publish your results (or some other jurisdiction with weak IP law).

So you can be all prepared for your arrest the minute you next set foot on US soil...

Is this press release meant for screen reading or printing? If it really meant for printing, I guess that's fine, but if it is meant for online reading it is stupid to use the PDF format. Jakob has some comments on this topic, if you care. Then again, some people think he's full of crap.

Open. The standard.

Cheers,
Ian

Check out this link. Note that it says

(4) Q. Are agents of the attorney bound by the privilege?

A. Yes. According to Arizona law an attorney's paralegal, legal assistant, secretary, stenographer, and clerk are all covered by this testimonial privilege statute. This is recognition by the Legislature that the practice of law requires, of necessity, the assistance of non-lawyer assistants. Information provided to any such person is subject to statutory protection.

Bruce

Simpler even, Acrobat is a commercial product but the format, PDF, is an open format. It will never go away because of that and because of the wide range of implementations/tools readilly available.

Just more than a year ago there were worldwide protests exhorting the U.S. Government to 'Free Dmitry,' demanding that young ElcomSoft programmer Dmitry Sklyarov be allowed to return to his native Russia. Eventually both Sklyarov and his employer were indicted on criminal charges of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). On July 16, 2001 Sklyarov had been arrested by the FBI in Las Vegas, stemming from allegations raised by Adobe Systems regarding an ElcomSoft software program that could be used to decrypt Adobe PDF-based ebooks. In December Sklyarov was finally allowed to leave the U.S. after a five-month detainment, with charges against him deferred in return for his testimony in a trial involving ElcomSoft.

Will they never learn? They're distributing the decryption keys on the CD; this harebrained scheme thus relies on wishful thinking (namely, that nobody will succeed in reading the keys). Well, good luck to them. I'm sure the crackers and the cryptography experts will get a good laugh out of this.

Let's hear it from renowned cryptography guru Bruce Schneier:

Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.

(Source - good read, btw)

http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=18 51

Actually, with the onset of Tagged PDF and PDF Reflow, paper size is completely variable. One excellent example of this is the Acrobat Reader for Palm. (Also PocketPC). These completely reformat the PDFs so they are viewable on the extremely skinny displays that PDAs have. In addition, in Acrobat 5 Reader you can reflow your PDF with larger fonts, maintaining the author-intended margins.

In the future, products like Acrobat Distiller Server will allow for documents to be automatically generated especially for certain display sizes, when reflow alone isn't enough. But for most documents, reflow automatically resizes fonts and margins wonderfully.

First, the filesize is ridiculous.

The interface needs a lot of work, unless I have a scrolling mouse I won't even bother reading one. The little hand widget must go. Also, I don't want to have to resize my screen to be able to read half the poorly produced PDFs out there. No use in jumping to the next page when I can only display 2/3 of the current one. So back to the little hand.

They're non-editable for the most part once you make them.

They are in a closed format and controlled by a litigious company unafraid to use the DMCA for their own questionable ends.

The plug-ins are notoriously buggy.

Its great for sending something straight to the laser printer, but as an on-line advance it really just stinks.

P.S.:And this has a score of 4? :-(

Only when a Microsoft Word file isn't the only alternative. Besides, there are non-Adobe .pdf tools here (PDFZone), here (PDFPlanet) , and here (SourceForge).

I am in total agreement with your sentiment: Screw Adobe!

Also, it needs to be noted in big bold letters for all to see, Dmitry Sklyarov did not break the law, his company, ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., did. Sklyarov is the person who wrote and programmed the software for his company (with the work of other employees). The company went on to sell and distribute the software. The sale and distribution is the only thing criminal under (Constitutionally-untested) U.S. law (the DMCA). This arrest was illegal.

Get the word out. Let the world know. The FBI has committed another one of its world-class blunders. They got the wrong man.

The Right Way to implement this is to make an abstract class for the tree node, write the tree manipulation methods to work with the abstract class, and make derived classes that store different types of data, with appropriate constructors that initialize the data fields. Anything that doesn't have to care about the data type can just manipulate the objects as the original abstract class.

This sounds like a perfect place to use the STL and/or C++'s templating mechanism. Trust me, I'm not a huge C++ fan, but the container classes in the STL kick ass (I imagine something like what you describe is already there). Even if the STL don't give you no lovin', templates (and references) make it really easy to write a storage class that works over an arbitrary range of types.

This is just my 2 cent's worth. I'm mainly a C guy too, but the STL was the single biggest thing tempting me to switch to C++.

There is good coverage of all this in Bruce Eckel's Thinking in C++ (and other such as the C++ Primer by Lajoie et al.) I mention Bruce Eckel's books because they're available to peruse online, his site is mindview.net which unfortunately seems to be down right now (maybe it's hosted in california ;-). I found a mirror of his C++ books in PDF form here and a mirror of all his books in HTML form here. If you're like me you'll read the book(s) online and end up liking them so much you want to own a paper copy (and here I make my standard reference to bookpool for discount tech books).

I asked a friend about this and he said, "no, but the answer is yes, there are other ways....use other OCR engines, like Omnipage Pro or TextBridge Pro. Adobe Capture 3.0 is really really really nice, but is expensive. The searchability factor is the only reason OCRing is needed in most instances."

Some useful sites:
PDF Research
Planet PDF
AcroBuddies
Codecuts
PDF Zone
Adobe
Deja.com