RE: pdf document viewer problem in espacenet

["Michael Fothergill" <mikef20000@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Michael Fothergill" <mikef20000@hotmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: pdf document viewer problem in espacenet
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:36:42 +0000
>
> 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 ?
>
> An original pdf file should be able to be got here:
> http://v3.espacenet.com/origdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=WO2007047206&F=0&QPN=WO2007047206
>
> The other way to get one is to go to the espacenet.com site and do any old 
> patent search and then pick any patent that is not Japanese and then go for 
> the original document in there.
>
>
> It should be a pdf file.
>
> And I should be able to read it.

OK, I tried xpdf as suggested by Ralph and it reads the file....  I only 
seem to get the first page of document, but that as they say is a different 
problem...

Thanks all

> The USPTO site has a way to see the original images but you need some weird 
> tiff plugin that iceweasel scored a blank on.....
>
>
>
> Comments appreciated.
>
> Michael Fothergill
>
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