RE: Held hostage by Adobe for $39.00

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

>>Hopefully, if enough of us make enough noise, that obnoxious practice 
>>will stop. Unfortunately, right now Adobe has few competitors for 
>>distiller and they feel they can get away with that nonsense. I am 
>>somewhat surprised though, that there have been so few complaints. Maybe 
>>Bruce will chime in here about a Linux app.

>Well, I'm not as knowledgeable about these things as Bruce, but 
>Ghostscript will do all of the PDF-creating things you need except for 
>applying Acrobat's "security" settings to the results. You can take a 


except, as long as, if,...

I paid my own money for FM at v5, paid for upgrade to v5.5.6., and paid for
v7. I paid my own money for Acrobat v3, and for v5, and was considering
doing so for Acrobat 6. I'm not a company with unlimited funds, but I also
believe in paying for what I use...both commercial and shareware.

I'm not asking for hand holding, I'm not asking for one-off support. I
simply want to know how to get to the applications I paid for off of the CDs
that I have in my hand, without jumping through hoops that without knowing
me, is telling me to prove I'm not a thief. Unreasonable?

...and I'm supposed to attempt to convince my company that should we go to a
tech pubs department, to spend more money for more of this attitude? 

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
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