Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-04 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/4/10, Greg Woods wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:15 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > >> >> Javascript can be turned off in the preferences. > > That makes it safer, but it also removes all the extra functionality > that would have motivated someone to install Adobe Reader on a Fedora > box in t

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-04 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:15 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > > Javascript can be turned off in the preferences. That makes it safer, but it also removes all the extra functionality that would have motivated someone to install Adobe Reader on a Fedora box in the first place. This is what we found ev

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-04 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/3/10, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Documents aren't actually documents but programs that are overly powerful, > so > that reading untrusted documents is not safe. Javascript can be turned off in the preferences. That should help. Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Andrews
On 03/02/2010 20:39, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Huh? OpenJDK is practically identical to Sun Java except for the license. > Except for the browser plugin (which OpenJDK does not include and which is > provided by the IcedTea project), the code is almost 100% Sun code. > Compatibility should be a non-is

openjdk compatibility (was: program to read electronic books)

2010-02-03 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
>> The same pitfall is with OpenJava: For true compatibility, one >> has to use Sun Java. Compiling with OpenJava did not solve the problem... > > Huh? OpenJDK is practically identical to Sun Java except for the license. > Except for the browser plugin (which OpenJDK does not include and which is >

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-03 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/3/10, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 21:00:45 +0100, > Andras Simon wrote: >> On 2/3/10, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> > Adobe Reader is proprietary and not part of Fedora, so it's certainly >> > the >> > worst option. >> > >> >> Sadly, proprietary or not, there are quite a few

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > It won't let you print copies if the document has a flag set indicating > not to allow that. By the way, Okular has a checkbox to just ignore this "feature" of the PDF format. :-p Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Joerg Bergmann wrote: > Sorry, but there is no true replacement for the Adobe Reader within > open source. Even for open source created products: I have created > an A0 poster background with Scribus, it contains a partial > transparent image on top of a pattern built of a repeating > 100mm square

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 21:00:45 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > On 2/3/10, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Waleed Harbi wrote: > >> He asked for read electronic books and **Adobe Reader still there NOT > >> outdated. > > > > Adobe Reader is proprietary and not part of Fedora, so it's certainly the > > wo

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-03 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/3/10, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Waleed Harbi wrote: >> He asked for read electronic books and **Adobe Reader still there NOT >> outdated. > > Adobe Reader is proprietary and not part of Fedora, so it's certainly the > worst option. > Sadly, proprietary or not, there are quite a few things going

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-03 Thread Joerg Bergmann
Am 03.02.2010 20:03, schrieb Kevin Kofler: > Waleed Harbi wrote: > >> He asked for read electronic books and **Adobe Reader still there NOT >> outdated. >> > Adobe Reader is proprietary and not part of Fedora, so it's certainly the > worst option. > > >> If there they **outdated the d

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Waleed Harbi wrote: > He asked for read electronic books and **Adobe Reader still there NOT > outdated. Adobe Reader is proprietary and not part of Fedora, so it's certainly the worst option. > If there they **outdated the developers will mention about this in the > main website. He will check t

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-03 Thread Henk Breimer
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:21:13 -0600 Aaron Konstam wrote: > It seems there was a program to read electronic books available on > Fedora. > What is is name? > -- > === > positron

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-02 Thread Waleed Harbi
*Kevin, He asked for read electronic books and **Adobe Reader still there NOT outdated. If there they **outdated the developers will mention about this in the main website. He will check then he will decided. * -- Best Wishes, Waleed Harbi Dream | Do | Be On Wed, Feb 3,

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-02 Thread Mikkel
On 02/02/2010 09:21 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > It seems there was a program to read electronic books available on > Fedora. > What is is name? > There are several in the Fedora repos. You may want to use yumex and do a search on ebook or book reader... Ebook Viewer LRF viewer calbre

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Waleed Harbi wrote: > *Here they are: > http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/58592 That link: * only talks about PDFs. There are many other e-book formats. * is completely outdated, e.g. it lists Kpdf (which has been replaced by Okular since Fedora 9) and it claims Okular is not ready for production

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Aaron Konstam wrote: > It seems there was a program to read electronic books available on > Fedora. > What is is name? Okular can read some of the formats. But unfortunately most of them are DRM- encumbered and cannot be read with anything in Fedora. Kevin Kofler -- users mai

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Aaron Konstam wrote: > It seems there was a program to read electronic books available on > Fedora. > What is is name? Which format? I'm given to understand that the Amazon Kindle, the B&N whatever, and the Apple iPaid tablet each use either a different format or different

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 09:21 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > It seems there was a program to read electronic books available on > Fedora. > What is is name? I use and highly recommend fbreader. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- users mailing l

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 09:21 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > It seems there was a program to read electronic books available on > Fedora. > What is is name? fbreader is one, though I've had some issues with it. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-02 Thread Waleed Harbi
*Here they are: http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/58592 *-- Best Wishes, Waleed Harbi Dream | Do | Be On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > It seems there was a program to read electronic books available on > Fedora. > What i

program to read electronic books

2010-02-02 Thread Aaron Konstam
It seems there was a program to read electronic books available on Fedora. What is is name? -- === positron router malfunction === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210