> > Hmmm, I wonder if the Mac's "save to pdf" option in the print options > > will allow you to get past that. :-) > > > I doubt it. Even non-DRM'd pdf's that don't "phone home" can disable > printing altogether, so I doubt they'd leave any sort of save-to-file > loophole open in their nasty DRM system. I even tried printing one of the > unprintable pdfs in a unix-based 3rd party pdf reader, and wasn't able to do > it.
I have about 30 "PDFs" which suffer from "DRM" restrictions . Technically, these files are *not* PDFs. Instead, they are some proprietary, encoded format, which can only be read in the Adobe Reader. I guess there's genuine PDF behind the layer of encryption, but from a user's standpoint, it is simply a proprientary PITA. Yup, AutoIt to flip the pages and trigger some screen capture software, plus a home-brew software to re-assemble the 1600x1200 screenshots (each covering half a page) into full pages again does the job of turning it into graphics. However, even "high-end" OCR software as Abbyy FineReader sucks like hell on such screenshots. Yes, the picture is perfectly clear, the letters uniform and the resultion is more than enough...but still, about every OCR software I tried will do it's very best to misinterpret names (especially foreign ones, with accents and whatever) and either consider page numbers as "dirt" or as part of the text on the page. Yuk, and that's not counting th eUtimate Morse Code Challenge in one document! Best regards, Klaus _________________________________________________________ This mail sent using V-webmail - http://www.v-webmail.orgg _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
