[j-nsp] Juniper PDFs now require Adobe Reader 9 and Flash Player to view?!?

[Josh Hoppes]

I was able to open the PDFs using Foxit after disabling the safe reading
mode. It looks like some of the PDFs are actually multiple PDFs packed
together. Even with safe reading mode though I can "save" out the packed up
documents to split them out and open them separately.


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:

> I did and asked them to open a documentation PR...
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:10:22AM +0000, OBrien, Will wrote:
> > Yuck. I hate their reader. Also, I like to read it on ipads and
> similar....
> >
> > submit it as a bug report. It will be funny.
> >
> > On Jan 30, 2013, at 5:17 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu>
> >  wrote:
> >
> > > Today I downloaded the Complete Documentation Set (PDFs) for Junos OS
> > > Release 12.1X44-D10 for SRX:
> > >
> > >
> https://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos12.1x44/information-products/topic-collections/security/software-all/junos-srx-pdfs/junos-for-srx-12.1x44-pdfs.zip
> > >
> > > only to discover that I can't open most of the PDFs because they now
> > > require Adobe Reader 9 and Flash Player in order "To view the Flash(R)
> > > technology content in this PDF file".
> > >
> > > Has anyone found a way to read these that doesn't require Adobe Reader
> > > 9 + Flash Player?
> > >
> > > Can Juniper please re-release this important documentation in a normal
> > > Portable Document Format instead of an Adobe proprietary format that
> > > requires insecure software to be installed to view it?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
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