[gui-talk] Difficulty downloading/installing Adobe Reader 8.1

[janet smith`]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Difficulty downloading/installing Adobe Reader 8.1


> How can I get rid of the google tool bar? It gets in my way most the time.
> Thx.
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles Oppermann" <chuckop at exchange.microsoft.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Difficulty downloading/installing Adobe Reader 8.1
>
>
> Actually, that's not correct, Adobe wants you to use their "Adobe Download
> Manager" tool, which installs as a ActiveX control to download the rest of
> Adobe Acrobat.
>
> Just remember that since it's a free product, Adobe wants you to get other
> software with Acrobat, including their PhotoShop Starter Edition, and 
> Google
> Toolbar, presumably they get a little something form Google for including
> that in the download.
>
> There are checkboxes on two different pages to control whether or not they
> get downloaded and installed.  Clearing those check boxes will prevent
> loading those unnecessary programs.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of albert griffith
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 2:50 PM
> To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Difficulty downloading/installing Adobe Reader 8.1
>
> You were some redirected from Adobe's web site.  There's no active X
> required for its installation.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:12 PM
> To: GUI-Talk
> Subject: [gui-talk] Difficulty downloading/installing Adobe Reader 8.1
>
> I currently use Adobe Reader V. 7.0, and I heard somewhere (the JFW list, 
> I
> think it was) that the new version 8.1 was available.
>
> I went to the Adobe site, went to the Downloads page, then to the Adobe
> reader page and found the download link for this new version, for Win XP.
>
> When I clicked on it, I got a message asking me to install Active-X. This
> isn't the issue. I have heard that you should be careful about something 
> to
> do with Active-X, because if you install it once, or install it on every 
> Web
> page that asks you to (I forget how this is brought to your attention, but
> anyway), it could render your system vulnerable to some sort of virus 
> deal.
> But this is Adobe, and I figure they're legit, and if they want me to do 
> the
> Active-X thing, that ought to be safe. No?
>
> So I used what I'd learned to do with my newly installed IE7 and access 
> the
> Information Bar, where I was able to indicate that I'd accept Active-X. I
> thought this went successfully.
>
> but as I followed the directions to proceed with the download, nothing 
> more
> happened. It just sort of stalled. No dialogue like you get for most
> downloading. I tried it over a few times, to see if I might have made some
> error, but it just didn't work.
>
> So I had a sighted friend over this evening, someone very computer-capable
> by profession, and asked him to turn off Jaws and try it himself. In some
> frustration, he reported to me that the very same thing happened to him, 
> and
> said I hadn't made any mistake because I was using Jaws. There just seemed
> to be something wrong.
>
> Does anyone happen to know what's up with this issue? It's not an 
> emergency,
> and I can go on using Adobe Reader 7, I guess, but considering that 
> Adobe's
> been good about developing screen reader-friendly features, I always feel
> interested in their upgrades and updates. Knowledgeable advice will be
> appreciated. First of all, have I misunderstood some step in the procedure
> because i failed to explore the page sufficiently with Jaws?If not, what's
> the problem? Anyone know?
>
> Joel
>
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