I have bought a second-hand device. It came without the user manual. I
have downloaded a PDF of the user manual from the manufacturer's website.
When I print the PDF, it print with a watermarked 'COPY' diagonally
across every page. I would like to get rid of it.
When I view the PDF using Acrobat Reader under Windows, it looks just
fine on the screen. The watermark appears only when printed.
This suggests to me that the watermark is separate from the page
content, and so it should be possible to remove it.
When I view the PDF using Evince, the watermark appears on both the
screen and the print.
If I open the PDF using Inkscape, I can move the watermark separately
from the rest of the page, and even delete it. But Inkscape can only
operate on a single page at a time, and I don't want a pristine copy
badly enough to hand-tweak 120+ pages. I would much rather spend my time
finding out how to do it properly (even though I could probably
hand-tweak the 120+ pages in half the time...)
If I open the PDF using PDFEdit 0.4.1, it gives warnings about the
document being a linearized PDF and an encrypted PDF, and about unknown
compression methods, and does not display any of the page contents at
all (but it does list all of the pages). It does provide an option to
delinearize the PDF, which gets rid of the linearized and encrypted
warnings, but still complains about the unknown compression and does not
display the page contents.
Any more suggestions?
Stephen Irons
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