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@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@autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces@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...
>
>
>
> --
>
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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