.acsm file format converter??

[_Cotannah_]

I paid for an ebook in the .acsm ( Adobe Digital Edition) format and did read it very well and it wont load into my sony reader as I only have the 500 not the new one. Is there any way to change the file format to either .pdf or .txt??? Because I would really like to read this book.

Thanks for any replies.

[rdlarabee]

Sandy,

One more thought and I suspect you've already done this; probably dozens of times. Did you simply double click on the ACSM file in either Safari>windows>downloads or in finder>downloads? I feel silly asking the question.

One other question: When I try to add a book from ADE library view ADE opens my downloads folder. When I was having the same problem, the ACSM files were gray'd out and ADE couldn't do anything with them. Each ACSM file was about 5kb in size so they had downloaded. Once I re installed ADE with the new preference file (com.adobe.digitaleditions.plist) the ACSM files now showed up as black and ADE could convert them to epub or pdf files and add them.to the library.

As I said I feel a bit silly because my guess is that you've done all of these things already. No more ideas.

Good Luck

Dick L

[sandyscott]

Would you believe it is working now. I am pasting in an email I was writing two

different techs with Overdrive to let them know what was happening step by step.

All I can say is....on the last uninstall I must have deleted something new that

I had not done before. I have no idea which one So yipee!

I do not have the paper with the error code with me, but I do remember the code

I sent you was backwards when I looked at it again. Is there a code 2803?

I have just tried uninstalling as much of ADE again. The app, the .plist and

anything that has ADE connected to it that I can see. Do you have any

suggestions on places to look for hidden parts of the program?

I have reinstalled ADE for the Mac from the Adobe website and gotten

confirmation that it has installed through the Firefox browser.

I have chosen a new book to download from the library site. I clicked open with

ADE and then OK and low and behold the books began to load in ADE. What a

shock....After so many tries of uninstalling ADE parts and pieces, I must have

uninstalled something different than the other times.

Just to check I also went to East Baton Rouge's library and was able to get

books from them. I will try to get download more at home to make sure that this

is still working.

I will let you know if I have anymore problems.

Thanks for your help.

 I will try this again at home. Who knows what changed but so far it is good.

I will let you know any other new developments. Now, to see if all these books

can be loaded on my Nook and iphone!

I really appreciate your help.

Sandy Scott

     "I am a green e-mail!  My presence on the Internet does not harm our

environment."

[rdlarabee]

Congrats.....I'm happy things have worked out. Amazing what can happen when people work together!

Dick

[sandyscott]

I now have a new problem with the Overdrive software. I have just received my

2nd replacement mobile device of the Nook. I plugged it into the computer and

ADE and I am getting the message I have too many items authorized for my

account. From what I saw I should be able to have 6 mobile devices and 6

computers. I have registered two Nooks and 1 iphone as mobile devices, and this

new Nook would not be my 6th mobile device, just my fourth.

Now as far as the computers are concerned, I am a technology trainer for a

local school district and I have had an Adobe ID for awhile and I have trained

Adobe Premiere and Photoshop Elements on several different computers with my

Adobe ID. I am not sure which ones I have used so I do not have the ability to

deauthorize with the commands shift-control-d since I do not know which ones I

have used. What do I need to do about this?

How can I get my new Nook onto my account without loosing the content I have

downloaded today?

Help!!!!

Sandy Scott

"I am a green e-mail! My presence on the Internet does not harm our

environment."

[rdlarabee]

Sonya....thanks for the reply.

This wasn't exactly my problem. (It was when I first tried out ADE tho!.)

When I downloaded from the library the files did get to my computer but ADE couldn't do anything with them. (They were all grey'd out.)

I did finally get the problem fixed by deleting everything on my computer that had anything to do with ADE and then reinstalling. In my case it seems that the ADE preferences file was the culprit (library>preferences>com.adobe.digitaleditions.plist,) The only reason I suspected this file was because I've used Photoshop in the past and everytime I had a problem the preference file was the problem.

Anyway everything is fixed and again I want to thank you for taking the time to reply to my problem. Since neither Adobe nor my library was able to help me, I have to rely on people like yourself to give me ideas for problem solving. I don't know much about computers you see.

Dick L.

[sandyscott]

I tried deleting anything including that .plist file and all files with anything

to do with ADE and reinstalling and still not luck with the .acsm files. I have

been able to get .pdf files in to ADE that were saved to my desktop. Do you have

any other suggestions on how to get these files into ADE on a Mac?

Sandy Scott

     "I am a green e-mail!  My presence on the Internet does not harm our

environment."

[Fire Fish]

What format is the book stored in after it gets downloaded with Adobe Digital Editions?

There's got to be a way for me to get a PDF out of this somehow.

Adobe is dreaming if they think they're going to succeed in digital protection like this. They don't even have an iPad reader for Digital Editions protected media.

[Frustrated in AZ]

By convention, .ascm files are associated with epub files. When you use ADE

to download an ebook, ADE will translate the .ascm file and download the

ebook. When the ebook is downloaded to your ereader this way, its file

format is .epub, with an '.annot' file that ADE creates to manage bookmarks,

etc.

.pdf's are different. .pdf files can be downloaded either directly to your

computer or via ADE. If you downoad your .pdf files via ADE, you can use

your computer's utilities to move them to another location, or use Adobe

Reader instead of ADE to open them. There are several versions of .pdf, and

ADE does not work with all of them (it's using a subset of Adobe Reader).

The ADE Help pages give you much more information about them.

ADE's been around for some time, and is focused on Windows and Mac

platforms. iPads have not. There ARE epub readers for the iPad, but not

ADE - yet. I don't know if they're working on it or not, but I assume that

they are, because they have an ADE edition for Mac.

Epub is the de facto standard for materials copyrighted and protected by

the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. And no, Adobe is not 'dreaming' - this

is the way the industry has decided to encode their ebooks, and ADE works

successfully with this format. Kindle works with this format also, and

there is other software that does as well. There's a particular one that

works on iPad, but I can't remember its name..... Old age!

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[Guest]

I have 50 pdf books and this is the very first purchase I've done that has become useless to me. I was supposed to be getting a plain old pdf which I intended to transfer onto the iPad, I saw nothing about DRM. What I have is an encrypted pdf that can only be read through the crippled and annoying proprietary reader that adobe offers for these DRM pdf files.

I blame myself for assuming the acsm file would end up just being a delivery package for the pdf, so wrong.

At least it was only an 8.50 loss for a locked pdf of a 5.50 hardback book.

Unfortunately you don't know you are hosed until you hit the download button... good luck getting your money back at that point.

[Frustrated in AZ]

Breathe deeply, and relax.... I've been there.

This situation isn't uncommon, and from your description, it's probably not

an ADE problem.

.ascm formats are merely information files. They authorize your ebook

support software (ADE or others) to download a particular file from a

particular site. You could look at them as 'sales slips' that your support

software present to the main site in order to get delivery of the item from

the ebook warehouse. So your concept of what .ascm does is correct in that

regard. However, it's the support software that might be what's causing

your frustration. ADE does not support the iPad at this time. Although I'm

not sure from the context of your message, it appears that you expected it

to be. Not yet - maybe soon, though, because ADE does support other Apple

devices, including Mac's. There's a package called Overdrive that might be

the answer for your situation. I think there are others out there, but I'm

not in the Apple world.

My suggestion for next steps is to get different support software for iPads

loaded on your computer (it may be free, like ADE) and then see if you can

find the .ascm file on your computer's hard drive. If it's there, then you

can use the new support software to get your .pdf files. If it's not

working, I'd contact the seller and explain the situation. Any of the ones

I've dealt with have been happy to retransmit the file....

Hope this works for you!

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[harper_syd]

I can not load any .ascm books either and have not been able to for the last 2 weeks.  Not on my pc or my mac.  I am trying to reseach a different way to do this because it doesnt seem that adobe is interested in fixing whatever bug there is.  And byw I use nook.

[Frustrated in AZ]

I feel like I'm being drawn into a different conversation.

Please read my comments about what an '.ascm book' is in the response I

posted in this thread. That will put us on a level playing field. Another

disclaimer: I am not a MAC guy - and so I can't comment on what may be wrong

in that environment. Some of the stuff below pertains to Windows PC's.

If you're having 'problems', they could be with ADE, they could be with your

anti-virus software, with the site you're trying to download from or with

the ebook file itself. It depends on what's happening to you - and your

problem is probably not a 'bug' in the software, because thousands of people

don't have 'problems'. I hate to say it like that, because all of us

assume that the technology we use individually works the same way as it does

for others. Here are a couple of ideas to see what you can do to 'get

around' or 'solve' the problem you have.

Start with a question: does this happen every time? If so, you might think

it's ADE, but it could be another software program on your computer. Check

the FAQ's in ADE Help (such as it is) and see if your anti-virus program has

been reported to cause issues with downloads. If ADE hasn't said so, it's

still quite possible, so try disabling your anti-virus program while you

attempt to download the ebook.

If there are any error messages that have popped up, you'll have an

indication whether there is a problem accessing the ebook - and that's not

ADE's problem. ADE relys on information that is in the '.ascm' file to

initiate the download and if there's an error in the ebook file, it won't

work.

Also, if you're having problems with one site in your attempts to download,

it's possible that THEY changed their software - especially if you were fine

for a while, but now your can't do anything. Try going to manybooks.net or

gutenberg.org and see if you can download something from them.

OK, if none of this works - or you simply don't want to mess with it, you

can go to a different set of ebook management software. Bluefire has been

mentioned, along with Overdrive, in other posts to this message board. I

understand that the MAC world likes both of these, and I know that at least

a few libraries use Overdrive.

I hope this helps!

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[JSWolf]

If you still have your 500 and it cannot read ePub, call Sony. They will do one of three things for you. They will either upgrade your 500 to handle ePub via ADE, give you a refurbished 600, or give you a refurbished 650. The update to ePub for the 500 was free. So I'm guessing if you ask Sony about this, they won't charge you.

[Guest]

I'm having trouble with an ebook I downloaded from the local library. I've got the ACSM file, Adobe Digital Editions is installed, and yet when I try to open the file it will only show the credit page--everything else is blank. I've been trying to figure it out for 3 days now, and it's getting a bit frustrating. Any help with this matter would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Yahnkehy4051

[harper_syd]

I stopped fighting.  The library says Adobe is at fault, Adobe says the library is at fault.  I have many books that I can not read on the Nook.  So I bought an inexpensive KIndle and can download from all libraries that carry kindle books.  Amazon is amazing about returning the books.  The only books that I now put on the Nook cookbooks and technical books that I buy directly from B/N.  And when I can afford it, I will buy the newest Kindle.  Tired of being frustrated by adobe.

[Ferro2010]

Isto tudo é uma boa maneira de desviar o nosso dinheiro.

Comprar um livro e ter que lê-lo no programa que lhes dá na telha não pode ser.

Queria lê-lo no meu ipad e não posso.

Estou estremamente aborrecido com o editor e com vontade ne nunca mais comprar um livro.

Tambem temos o direito de desviar da mesma forma.

[Frustrated in AZ]

I don't speak your language, so I hope you can read my English.

.ascm files are just address files that tell ADE where to find the ebook

you want to download. They are not ebooks themselves.

Click HERE<http://ebookreadersoftware.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/acsm-files-what-they-are-and-how-to-work-with-them/>

to

read an article in English that gives you more details.

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[Kvetchus]

(yes I realize this was an older thread, but it's what came up in Google, and it's still very much relevant).

I check books out from my local library through their digital site.  Most books can be kindle or EPUB -- I read them on iOS, so either one was an option.  The Overdrive app isn't very good, but the Kindle one is.  I don't need special software to use the Kindle format, the deliver the book over the internet to my devices and either way, unlike with the audiobooks, both EPUB and Kindle books actually expire and become unavailable when the checkout period ends.  Since Adobe is considerably more bother to get onto my iphone (requires the use of at least two, if not three, programs) vs a single click after checkout to get the Kindle version -- I'll stick with Kindle.  Sorry Adobe, you shouldn't assume everyone will just use your software...  probably time to reconsider your whole book platform, because you've seriously failed on this one.

[hennier]

This is easy. Just convert acsm to pdf with Adobe Digital Editions.

Then if you want to read them on Sony, you should make sure that your Sony account are with the same Adobe ID (the same email address) as your pdf purchased from.

http://www.epubor.com/how-to-convert-acsm-to-pdf-free.html

[iInsonli]

There are 5 acsm converter tools that you could get a trial.

Online tools, calibre, etc..