Dear Mr. Kaminski,
Many thanks for your note and your interest in the esp@cenet service of the
EPO and its member states.
The same problem was reported by some other esp@cenet users using Internet
Explorer version 5. In the past days, we found a solution for some of these
users, using a tip given by Adobe in the Acrobat Reader 4.0 guide.
We could suggest that you try the following: copy the file nppdf32.dll which
should be located in the version 4 of Acrobat Reader in
..\Acrobat4.0\Reader\browser\nppdf32.dll into the
..\InternetExplorer\plugins\ folder.
We would be grateful to know if this advice was of any help to you.
Sincerely yours
Dr. Christian Bock, M.B.L.
and the EPO/Vienna esp@cenet helpdesk
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Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
Department of Finance and Information Technologies
Einsteinstrasse 2
CH - 3003 Bern
Tel. +41 - (0)31 - 322 48 37 / 322 49 33
Fax. +41 - (0)31 - 350 05 54 / 325 25 26
E-mail mailto:christian.bock@ipi.ch
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Von: ktk@infoscitech.ca [mailto:ktk@infoscitech.ca]
Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 16. September 1999 03:18
An: piug-l@derwent.tecc.co.uk
Betreff: facsimile images of documents from Espacenet
I visit occasionally the EspaceNet patent collection
(http://www.european-patent-office.org/espacenet/) and recently I tried to
download images of a few documents from their quite impressive database.
According to help file on the site, the images are in the PDF format and
warning is given that Adobe Acrobat Reader (AAR) is required to see and
print them. These days almost everybody has this piece of software
installed, and my computer is no exception to the rule. Moreover, it looks
like the Reader is automatically configured inside the browser (MS Internet
5.0 in my case) upon installation, so each time a PDF file is read by the
browser, the AAR is automatically fired up and shows the image inside the
browser's window. The whole process is completely transparent, i.e., no
action other than clicking on the link to the PDF file is required to see
its content on the screen, and I have _never_ encountered any exception to
this rule when surfing the Web.
Not the same at the EspaceNet Web site. Clicking on the link causes
something to be apparently downloaded, but AAR is _not_activated and a
little icon is displayed instead. Clicking on the icon opens an "object
handler error message" informing that there is no handler installed for the
downloaded object, even though the object itself is defined as
"application/pdf".
Quite naively, I deinstalled my AAR 3.01 and installed AAR 4.0, downloaded
from the Adobe Web site. Nothing has changed. Without configuring the newly
installed AAR, I could immediately see in my browser PDF files from around
the world, with the notable exception of EspaceNet.
So I went deeper into the EspaceNet's help file and in some rather obscure
place found a warning for users of MS Internet Explorer 4.x and higher, that
to "optimize the viewing" of facsimile images AAR is not good enough and
ActiveX Control for Adobe Acrobat has to be additionally installed. They
even provided a link for the downloading, but the page has disappeared from
the Web since the help file was posted. So I had a closer look at the Adobe
Web site, found the latest version of the required piece of software
anddownloaded it, only to realize that it was apparently supposed to work
with AAR 3.x (which I duly deinstalled) and not with AAR 4.x (which I duly
installed). Becoming a bit desperate, I installed the ActiveX Control anyway
(in Reader folder of my AAR 4.0, as apparently required), but this has
changed nothing. As you may correctly suspect, AAR 3.x is no longer
available at the Adobe Web site.
Could somebody, please, tell me what went wrong and what should I do to
enjoy facsimile images of documents from the EspaceNet Web site? I do not
care if they are in PDF or any other format, as long as I can see and print
them. Many thanks in advance for your help.
Kazimierz T. Kaminski, Ph.D.
Patent Agent
InfoSciTech Information Consultants Inc.
tel.: (613)824-9076
fax: (613)824-9562
ktk@infoscitech.ca
http://www.infoscitech.ca
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