I was alerted to something odd the other day. I had a patron who was trying to view a PDF file in an Ebsco database and was having trouble with it. As it turns out the problem was that inexplicably the file was being forced open through an embedded Adobe Acrobat viewer plugin. Yup Adobe or nothing else, what was also 'paint you in a corner' about the situation was that no HTML version of the document was available. Yuck, and here is why:
Whilst reading my favorite 'zine I came across a brief article entitled "The Voyager Library Information System". Normally that wouldn't mean much but the zine was 2600 and it was the typical article that you find in 2600. (In other words an alarming discovery of the ILS system and the data that it contains).
I was alerted to something odd the other day. I had a patron who was trying to view a PDF file in an Ebsco database and was having trouble with it. As it turns out the problem was that inexplicably the file was being forced open through an embedded Adobe Acrobat viewer plugin. Yup Adobe or nothing else, what was also 'paint you in a corner' about the situation was that no HTML version of the document was available. Yuck, and here is why:
Whilst reading my favorite 'zine I came across a brief article entitled "
