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From: Mike Bourke on 28 Sep 2005 09:14 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. > > -- > Regards from John Corliss > My current killfile: aafuss, Chrissy Cruiser, Slowhand Hussein and others. > No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware, > PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, > viruses or warez please.
From: Eric on 28 Sep 2005 12:12 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 28 Sep 2005 19:03 "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 28 Sep 2005 21:39 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.
From: DevilsPGD on 28 Sep 2005 22:33
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. -- FORTY-SEVEN MILLION LOSE LOTTERY One winner declared "statistical aberration" |