On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:36:42PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists > > I have been searching on the espace patent web site. You can get the > original patent document from the site as a pdf file. > > I think its unrestricted access here folks. > > It was in the past. > > But if you search for a patent and then try to download the pdf file it > starts to do it and then says the pdf file is locked and asks for a > password. > > Weird > > Could it be it doesn't like the document viewer (not Acrobat that seems to > expect) in free debian Etch ? I had some trouble recently using evince to view some pdf's. It claimed they were locked, when they were not. What view are you using? Try something that would ignore a lock: xpdf comes to mind. or maybe one of the pdf2<something> converters. I just tried your link in sid using iceweasel and xpdf. works just fine. shows a patent for a clipless pedal design. A
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