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I bought the DVDs. It used Adobe Air which I had never heard of and is discontinued. Each page of the magazine is in some encrypted format but I found softwar
by lizknope 3y ago
I bought the DVDs. It used Adobe Air which I had never heard of and is discontinued. Each page of the magazine is in some encrypted format but I found software on the internet to decrypt it. You can use cp to get those files. Then you can google about the encryption.
My parents got me a subscription in 1987 when I was a kid and I'm still a print edition subscriber and linked my online account to my subscription. I can read any issue online as well and print to PDF so I do that every couple of months so I have every issue from 1888 to 2023.
- blinkingled 3y agoThanks, not going to bother with the DVDs then. Will check out if subscription is reasonable and go that route.
- lizknope 3y agoThe Adobe Air program was basically just a front end to display and decrypt everything. I could never get it to work on Linux so I never actually even looked at it except the screenshots in the help document. All the files are named well like NGM_1918_04_125.jpg National Geographic Magazine, year 1918, 4th month (April), page 125 Yeah, it was annoying but I ran a for loop on every file in the 80GB or so to translate it to normal JPEG. It took about 24 hours and that was 10 years ago on a much older computer.
- fy20 3y agoAdobe AIR was a precursor to Electron in the late 00s. It allowed apps written in JavaScript, ActionScript and some other Adobe tech to be easily built for multiple platforms.