BRCS Download

[RaspK_FOG]

Acrobat allows compatibility with down to version 4, so there is no issue with that as far as I know, though that is still an issue of what the members of this community will do in the future.

[Cuchulainshound]

The last two versions of Acrobat have some funky pre-reqs that clash with some computer set-ups as well. 6 requires Internet Exploder (I use Firefox), and altho' 7 only requires one of several recognized browsers, it no longer supports '98 (me again!).

Other conflicts could require a member to rely on legacy versions as well.

How difficult would it be to save all the dowlnoadable .pdf's in older versions? Would anything be lost by doing so? (Chapter 1 seems to be ver 4 or 5 already.)

[Cuchulainshound]

.PDF Reader Alternative: SOLUTION FOUND

Foxit Reader, freeware, an alternative .pdf reader to Adobe Acrobat.
Foxit Reader runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003.

File size- zipped, less than 1 MB, expanded, less than 1.5MB.

(Altho' Foxit has their own site, I found it easier to download from Snapfiles)
http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/sy...wpdftools.html

Very fast download, no "registration" or e-mail addy's necessary, clean and functional. (And it loads faster than Acrobat!)

(Phew!)

[irdeggman]

I've just experienced this as well, and believe there IS a problem, tho' it's not insurmountable, just needs to be addressed on the Admin end.

It appears that Chap 1 was saved with/as an Adobe ver 5 or lower, and Chapter 2 and etc were saved as Adobe ver 6 or 7 (current.)*

The only problem is... version 6 or higher system requirements are much more than what's required for Windows '98- won't even load on older machines. If ver 5 tries to open a ver 6 or 7 .pdf, it reports the "file was damaged and couldn't be repaired". Not very good foresight on the part of Adobe, but whaddya want from freeware?

So, anyone who still uses '98 (like me, for my desktop/web-surfing computer anyway), is screwed. (Anyone with a more modern machine but an old version of Adobe can download newer versions from Adobe or Tucows.)

Any chance those .pdf's can be "Saved As" an earlier version, so all can enjoy them without arcane computer contortions? (I think no relevant features are lost, unless a Chinese-font version exists, or one with movies instead of artwork is desired.)

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(*This is based on empirical experimentation only. I still can't open the damn thing to verify the different versions. When I can, come Tuesday, I'll only be able to open it on my work computer- not very handy for when I'm back home.)

I am going to go through the files and "reconvert" them. But I want to do some of the editorial fixes that I had mentioned in other posts - so it may take a while to complete.

(btw- where are these "word versions" of which legends are told?)

Here.

http://www.birthright.net/showthread.php?t=2628

They are in the "zip" file at the end.