On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:49:13 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wrote: > > How are they doing this detection [of Acroread]? > > Celejar writes: > > I don't know. > > I suggest you concentrate your efforts on finding out (and publish your > results, of course). Once you can spoof their detection method you can get > them to send you the files which you should be able to read despite the > signature. Verifying the signature can come later. I installed the linux tarball (as a non-priveleged user, and to a non-standard location under $HOME, to minimize pollution), and dropped the plugin (nppdf.so) into $HOME/.mozilla/plugins (I'm using IW), which was enough for the website to accept my system as having Acrobat installed. I assume it was the plugin that did it, since I doubt there were any heuristics that could have found the files I installed under $HOME/some_location. Oddly enough, when I try to download PDFs from the institution's site, the plugin doesn't pick them up, although IW recognizes them as "PDF documents", and "about:plugins" shows Acrobat as being installed. [IW only offers to open the PDFs with the default app (Evince) or to save them to disk]. pdfinfo gives: > Producer: iText by lowagie.com (r1.02b;p128) > CreationDate: Tue Oct 2 11:39:33 2007 > ModDate: Tue Oct 2 11:39:33 2007 > Tagged: no > Pages: 4 > Encrypted: no > Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) > File size: 774826 bytes > Optimized: no > PDF version: 1.4 I haven't yet tried to open a downloaded PDF in Acrobat since I'm reluctant to agree to the EULA. > John Hasler Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
