I cannot seem to find an *.api for Reader 9. Any suggestions? I cannot find any help online or on this forum, but I do not for one second imagine that I am alone!

I'm using Fedora 11, have tried the api for Reader 8 with no joy.

I understand you need to protect the authors but this DRM nonsense is a complete pain for the consumer - you know, the ones that give you money. I for one will not be purchasing any future editions of NR if you continue with this. I am fully paid up with book, online (apparently if I can get the damn thing working) and downloaded the code. I honestly feel ripped off at the moment. You have my money and I cannot access something that I have paid for. I am 20 miles away from my book and I need to reference something over an hour ago. It would have been faster for me to drive home then back again. Can I charge you for petrol??

We agree with you about the DRM but, as discussed in several other postings, have still not found any viable alternative. The FileOpen plug-in seems to be fine with Reader 9 on Windows, but not on all Linux systems. We are contacting FileOpen to get their take on this and will report back in due course on this thread. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you for getting back to me.

Initially I removed my Reader 9 on my linux machine and replaced with Reader 8... but 9 is a vast improvement in many ways and I open a lot of other pdfs, so that was far from a viable solution.

I have a workaround, it probably won't suit most people, but I'll post it just in case:

-> Using a fresh Wine (v1.1.18) install, configured to XP mode, I downloaded and installed Reader 9.0 for Windows.

->Then I downloaded the FileOpen.api for windows, put that in the correct directory as per instructions.

-> Next I downloaded the authpanel.php generated from activating an additional machine.

->Finally I clicked the red turbo button and downloaded the corresponding localperms.pdf.

This means that I can download the chapters and view offline through my Windows Adobe via wine, which is SO slow, but it works. I just need to click the red button every 30 days like every other user viewing offline.

I cannot view the chapters in my browser or native linux Adobe Reader 9, which is annoying.

I am not using the most up-to-date version of Wine, I do not find it very stable. I got the version that shipped with my current distro from http://www.mirrorservice.org/

I am also not using the latest Reader (9.1), didn't have any joy with that one. From http://appdb.winehq.org I found the address for Reader 9.0: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.0/enu/AdbeRdr90_en_US.exe

I hope this helps someone :)

I have the same problem on Ubuntu 9.04 where the default Acrobat Reader version is 9.1.3.

I understand the DRM issue but by requiring this plugin you are actually making yourself dependant on a third-party with regrettable consequences for some of your customers. As far as I'm concerned, I will stay with the book version and won't purchase the electronic version until I can be sure I can use it on my machine.

Hi,

More than one year has passed. Has this issue (FileOpen plugin for Reader 9 in Linux) been solved?

Thanks,

Alas, no. We were not able to get the necessary support from the FileOpen folks in fixing this. That is in part why we developed our two new interfaces (http://www.nr.com/bookreader_chooser.html) that don't require the FileOpen plug-in. These will work on any operating system, in any browser with installed Flash. We will continue to maintain the plug-in based interface for legacy users, but we no longer recommend it.