Hi
Can anyone help with our problem and Adobe Digital Editions?
I am struggling to tell whether this will deal with the issues which we have with the current Adobe Digital Editions software. Our Computing Services summed it up as follows. Allowing central installation will probably deal with point 1 below, but we may well be left with all the other problems still. Points 2 and 3 mean that we are unable to deploy Adobe Digital Editions at this university.
Does anyone know whether these points are likely to be addressed in the new version of Digital Editions? I have looked at the information on the Adobe site but it doesn't really say anything about using the software in a networked environment with Novell.
1. Functionally, Adobe Digital Editions installation is pretty good - it's entirely user-specific, so is nicely contained in a user's profile. Unfortunately for staff, being user-specific is not such good news because Digital Editions adds at least 7.5mb to a user's roaming profile (which has to be downloaded on login and uploaded on logout).
2. Additionally (because of how users and logins work), Digital Editions doesn't understand that the FBloggs logging in on Monday on Computer A is the same FBloggs who logs in on Tuesday on the same computer and this appears to cause problems for Digital Editions' DRM mechanism. Basically, it results in any downloaded Digital Editions content requiring to be re-downloaded before it can be viewed and results in the user's H: drive space being taken up with multiple copies of the same content.
3. Digital Editions also doesn't manage content very sensibly. Electing to delete the unrecognised content from within Digital Editions doesn't remove the content from the user's H: drive. I didn't test this, but it's possible Digital editions just doesn't understand what a networked drive is.
4. Additionally, as it's Flash-based, Digital Editions is very unfriendly regarding accessibility.
Any advise would be gratefully received!!
Kind regards
Yvonne
Yvonne Osler
Reader Services/IT Support
Main Library
University of Dundee
Dundee
Scotland
UK
Tel: 44 (0)1382 384087
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>>> Graham Titley <[log in to unmask]> 23/09/2008 12:49 >>>
Hi
If you use BLDSC's SED service and Adobe Reader 6 or 7 (without having installed Adobe Digital Editions) you need to know that from April next year these versions will no longer be supported. This is because the document encryption standard is being permanently migrated from content server 3 to content server 4, which will not support earlier encryption standards. This means that SED will only work with Digital Editions from April 2009.
The British Library have announced in their FAQs that Adobe will be making available a standalone installer for ADE from April 2009 - which will allow central installation (AT LAST!!!).
Like to know more then go http://www.bl.uk/sed and click the FAQs link on the right of the webpage.
Graham Titley
Document Delivery and Copyright Librarian
University of Plymouth
Drake Circus
Plymouth
PL4 8AA
Tel: 01752 587162 or 587161
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