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Friday, January 04, 2008

Ind. Decisions - More on problems with new COA opinions format

The ILB has not heard back from its messages yesterday to the Indiana Clerk's Office re problems with the new format of the five opinions issued Jan. 3 and presumably all those to follow.

Note: All five of these documents currently are corrupted and cannot be read. The ILB has informed the Clerk's office.

[Update: The Clerk's office was contacted at 1:02 pm. It is now 3:05 pm and no response has been received. The opinions remain inaccessible. If you can help, please contact the ILB.]

[Updated 1/4/08: Apparently all PDF viewers will not open the 5 new postings by the Clerk yesterday, even though they readily open all earlier cases posted by the Clerk.]

These five opinions are the only ones the ILB has been unable to open using a setup that works with every other PDF file the ILB has ever attempted at any site.

What you will need, it seems, is to install the most recent version of the Adobe Reader. The ILB, for one, uses Adobe Acrobat Professional, v. 6.01, to open documents, and it does not work on these five opinions because of the graphic the Clerk has added to each opinion. (Note that the 7th Circuit, for one, has incorporated any number of graphics into its recent opinions, without corrupting the documents.) . The free Adobe Reader 8, about which there have been national complaints unrelated to the court issue, does open the opinions, but then the user must change over to the professional version to manipulate the docs in order to post them. It would seem that the Clerk's Office may have received complaints in addition to those of the ILB, as this afternoon the Office has redone the opinions page so that the links to cases will be preceded every day by a message stating:

These files are in PDF format. To view a PDF file you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader which is available free of charge at Adobe's Website.
Of course, that does not solve the ILB's problem, nor most likely problems of some other users of the public site.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 4, 2008 05:48 PM
Posted to Indiana Decisions