On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 08:01 +0100, Theo Schmidt wrote: > Matthias-Christian Ott schrieb: > > Despite this, I've never found a PDF document that didn't work with > > xpdf or evince. > > How about this one: > http://www.skppsc.ch/1/downloads/de/Betrugspraevention_www.den-trick-kenne-ich.ch.pdf > > I'm not able to open this with any of my PDF readers, not even xpdf. It > doesn't > appear to be DRMed, just somehow prgrammed not to open without the required > Adobe reader. My usual trick of using pdf2ps doesn't work either, it is the > first PDF I've not been able to view without resorting to Adobe reader. Or am > I > doing something wrong? > > This is strange, as it comes from a semi-official website > http://den-trick-kenne-ich.ch/4/de/ from the combined police departments of > the > Swiss kantons.
Wow, produced by: Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0 (Windows) - why would they want to do that? Maybe they were falling behind on their yearly CIA quota of machines made hackable via vulnerabilities in the adobe reader. I found that I can load it into inkscape (I guess using pstoedit) a page at a time and remove the on-top shapes (not that I'd want to do that for the whole document). Sam
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