My FileOpen Plug-In Experience

As an SAE member I must warn my fellow members about downloading from the SAE web site. If you download a PDF file it won't open for you unless you install a FileOpen Plug-In. It is the SAE version of SOPA that is intended to protect copyrighted SAE items.

Don't use the FileOpen Plug-In. If you need a white paper or standards document, get the printed version. You will have to wait a few days but it is worthwhile to wait.

FileOpen states that the plug-in won't run unless one tries to open a copyrighted document. Actually it does run and FileOpen plug-in prevents Adobe4 from finding the pdf file at all. Here is an error message that it made when I tried to open a regular PDF file. After installing the FileOpen plug-in my computer won't show non-secure pdf files.

And when I try to open my own copyrighted software that I sell, this is the resulting error message.

I can click through this message but that means clicking through 10 - 30 times a day. And then only after I have minimized all of the windows on my display so that I can find this box and click through it. Don't even think about trying to open a pdf attached to e-mail, with FileOpen plug-in installed it becomes impossible.

Uninstall the plug-in and it doesn't go away. To really get rid of it, I had to delete these files by hand: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 4.0\Acrobat\plug_ins\FileOpen.api C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 4.0\Acrobat\plug_ins\fowpkbd.dll .
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