Re: Electronic Distribution of Copyrighted User Guides

From: M K Ramadoss <ramadoss[_at_]eden.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:30:01 -0600

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, JQ Johnson <jqj[_at_]darkwing.uoregon.edu> wrote:

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> Pamela Finkel aka Esoteric Resources asks about distribution of
> documents in PDF rather than MS Word format as a protection
> mechanism against the creation of unauthorized derivative works.
> If this were in fact an efficient strategy for preventing
> manipulation of the copyrighted material,

Here is some info that may interest those wanting to convert pdf to wordprocessing files.

mkr

M. K. Ramadoss
<ramadoss[_at_]eden.com>

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A company named AMBIA has developed software in conjunction with Adobe that allows Adobe pdf documents to be converted to Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) for use with word processors. Currently, to edit a pdf document it is necessary to copy and paste each page (one at a time) from the pdf document to the word processor document. This is not only cumbersome, but some formatting is lost. By the Aerial software converting the PDF to RTF you no longer have to copy and paste. You just open the RTF document in your word processor and edit. No format is lost and the whole document is opened at one time.

The downside to this is that this software is only available to IBM and compatible computers, so Mac folks are out of luck.

This software is available, free of change, from the following URL:

                            http://www.ambia.com/ 

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