[thelist] Acrobat Web capture

[Mutes]

Alright, I'm an idiot... but what is spidering?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: aardvark <roselli at earthlink.net>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Acrobat Web capture


> > From: Peter Kaulback <pkaulbak at idirect.ca>
> >
> > I was assisting a friend with a client, and upon completion of the
> > site the client decided to drop my friend and his work.  But they then
> > used Acrobat's web capture and took the entire site from his test
> 
> wait, they didn't spider the site to get the HTML and images, they 
> did an Acrobat capture?  are you sure they didn't also spider it as 
> well?  what did they approach you to do?
> 
> > server.  I know they did this because they approached me with his work
> > in PDF format.  I declined, but I'm curious none the less how other's
> 
> erm, i would have called my friend and told him what happened... 
> and passed over the PDF as well.... that's not good that they had 
> him do the work, dumped him, and are farming it out elsewhere 
> (assuming he didn't screw up)... regardless of the answer to your 
> question, it sounds like the client stole, and you should follow up 
> on that... who knows who else they'll try to screw, and you could 
> have stepped in...
> 
> > deal with the Acrobat Web Capture utility.  Also is there any way to
> > prevent the program from capturing your work? Peter Kaulback
> 
> sure, but not definitively... serve up p0rn to any browser with a user 
> agent similar to "Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; WebCapture 1.0; 
> Windows)"...
> 
> otherwise, no, it's really just a web browser, so unless you parse 
> the UA, you're stuck... and keep in mind, it's probably easier to 
> use a spidering utility to just get the real meat of the site, not just 
> the Acrobat version (with all its rendering quirks)...
> 
> 
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