From: Mike Bourke on
Thanks for clarifying that, John. As I said, I wasn't sure.

Mike

"John Corliss" <jcorliss(a)fake.invalid> wrote in message
news:11jksho78n8nt71(a)corp.supernews.com...
> Mike Bourke wrote:
> > Not 100% sure but I think that Open Office will open pdf documents and
may
> > therefore allow copying of text to clipboard.
>
> Mike, if memory serves me, OpenOffice.org won't open .pdf files, but it
> will save to that format.
>
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From: Eric on
Jeff Needle wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:12:31 -0700, Mike Dee <mikedee(a)invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> > Another method I use, is to print the PDF to a postscript file ".ps"
> > you can set up a dummy printer if you don't have a physical postscript
> > printer such as a HP laserjet etc because you only want to save the
> > postscript output here.
> >
> > Once you have the .ps file made then use a PDF program such as
> > PDFCreator <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/> to turn the
> > .ps file back into a PDF. The trade-off is you lose URLs and other
> > links from the original PDF but you gain full image and text selecting
> > rights (password protection doesn't get sent to the printer).
> >
>
>
> Thanks. If I have to, I'll do this.
>
> --
> --------------------------------------
> Jeffrey Needle
> jeff.needle(a)gmail.com

That's not going to work either.

First off, there is a setting that turns of the print function and they
probably did that if they went to the trouble to restrict copying.

Even if they didn't restrict printing, anything Ghostscript based will
NOT re-render it to a new PDF. I tested that on a file I created that
was set to allow printing but not allow copying. I got the following
error:

This PostScript file was created from an encrypted PDF file.
Redistilling encrypted PDF is not permitted.
%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: get ]%%

GhostScript Error 1
Error, no PDF file produced! (False)

Looks like password protection IS sent to the ".ps" file. I print to a
Apple Laserwriter and then run the .ps through Ghostscript. You're back
to cracking the password before doing anything else.

If anybody else wants to test... I've put a fully protected PDF showing
one page of this thread at:

<http://www.widewaterfilms.com/other/protection_test.pdf>

Eric

From: Mike Dee on
"Eric" <byteguy(a)lanset.com> wrote in
news:1127923920.767716.153200(a)z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:

> Looks like password protection IS sent to the ".ps" file. I print
> to a Apple Laserwriter and then run the .ps through Ghostscript.
> You're back to cracking the password before doing anything else.
>
> If anybody else wants to test... I've put a fully protected PDF
> showing one page of this thread at:
>
> <http://www.widewaterfilms.com/other/protection_test.pdf>

That file was so well protected I wasn't even allowed to open it in
Acrobat to even view it, LOL. Can you put one up with a little less
restriction.

The OP didn't mention that it couldn't be printed. But I guess that's a
possibility, I know saving to .ps with lesser restrictions works very
well.

--
dee

"At any point in our history, we've had competitors who were better at
doing something" - B Gates, Sept 2005.
From: PDFrank on
Eric wrote:

> <http://www.widewaterfilms.com/other/protection_test.pdf>

I opened it in Foxit PDF Editor Version 1.2, and it let me copy any text
I selected to the clipboard.

To prove it, here are the ads from your file:

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data
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You people should listen to me once in a while.
From: DevilsPGD on
In message <uLCdnUQYUcLj2KbeRVn-hw(a)rcn.net> PDFrank <pdfrank(a)some.come>
wrote:

>Eric wrote:
>
>> <http://www.widewaterfilms.com/other/protection_test.pdf>
>
>I opened it in Foxit PDF Editor Version 1.2, and it let me copy any text
>I selected to the clipboard.
>
>To prove it, here are the ads from your file:
>
>PDF Extraction That Works
>Our flexible tools convert PDF
>data
>into text, XML, Excel, etc.
>www.ql2.com
>PDF Extract Tool
>Extract text, images, information
>PDF dev. tool, easy to integrate
>www.pdf-tools.com
>Compress, Optimize PDFs
>90% faster to transmit & view
>PDFs
>PdfCompressor 3.0, Free
>Download.
>
>You people should listen to me once in a while.

"Price for single user license of Foxit PDF Editor is US$99, much lower
than other full featured editor."

It's not freeware, and hence is off topic for this group.

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