[Mgs] Beware Heritage Trust Manuals on CD

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Thu Aug 20 20:23:04 MDT 2009


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Max Heim" <max_heim at sbcglobal.net>
To: "MG List" <mgs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Beware Heritage Trust Manuals on CD


> Oh yeah, I forgot about Windows default autoplay -- I'd turn that off 
> first
> thing.
>
> --
>
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>
>
> on 8/20/09 4:34 PM, Councill, David at dcouncill at msubillings.edu wrote:
>
>> Max is correct on this. Now I'm not sure how the Heritage Trust Manual
>> CD is set up but I do have the Landrover Rave CD (actually two of them)
>> which may be similar. They both work on my Vista 64 bit machine just
>> fine but the setup is a bit strange. The CD has to run on its own
>> executable (rave.exe) which uses an archaic version of Adobe Acrobat
>> (version 4) to display the workshop manual, owner handbook, and other
>> documents. When I try to view the pdf files off the CD they will not
>> work with the Adobe reader installed on my computer - says I need to go
>> to Adobe's site to get a plugin which Adobe says is "not available". So
>> everything has to run off the CD. The problem may be on how the computer
>> runs "autoplay" on the CD but that's just speculation. Most of these
>> type of programs/CDs are going to either html or pdf based files though
>> which should make them compatible with most operating systems, barring
>> various anti-piracy schemes to prevent circulation of the files
>> themselves.
>>
>> David Councill
>> 67 BGT
>> 72 B
>> 73 B
>> 01 LandRover Discovery II
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mgs-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces at autox.team.net] On
>> Behalf Of Max Heim
>> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:59 PM
>> To: MG List
>> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Beware Heritage Trust Manuals on CD
>>
>> This is a pretty ridiculous problem... The operating system should not
>> affect whether Acrobat (actually, Adobe Reader is the name) can read PDF
>> documents. And newer versions of Adobe Reader can always read older PDF
>> documents, so that isn't the problem.
>>
>> Hmm, I wonder if the document on the CD is hard-coded to launch the
>> version
>> of Reader that is on the CD (which, being older, is not compatible with
>> Vista)? I can think of two workarounds: copy the document files to your
>> hard
>> drive and eject the CD; or first launch your current version of Reader,
>> then
>> use the Open command to select the document on the CD.
>>
>> I mean, I can pop random CD-ROMs from the mid-90s into my new Mac
>> running
>> the latest OS and read the old PDF help documents, no problem. It just
>> shouldn't be an issue...
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 


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