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are you kidding?

http://www.google.com/search?q=adobe+reader+vulnerability

no, i need to steal clip some pages out of some intellectual property scholarly materials

dude i'm busy researching SCIENCE EDUCATION i don't have time to research COMPUTER SECURITY TOMFOOLERY

can we collaborate?

acrobat is telling me something like "you can read and print but not copy"

i don't want to mess around with a hundreds of scanned pages when i only need 20-30 pages out of this book

do u just want to c&p text?

i want to make a new PDF with only some of the pages reproduced

do you need the text in your new pdf to be c&p-able searchable etc or would it be ok if it was all images

in this case i don't think i'm going to have a choice, it's a scan of a book so the text isn't c&p-able anyway.

screenshots is not a time-efficient way of doing this.

did you try rasterizing individual pages in photoshop then: file > automate > pdf presentation

tho not sure if photoshop will let you rasterize a locked down pdf

i think the entire "document" drop-down is grayed-out

Everyone needs a hacked copy of acrobat professional for this kind of stuff.

Are you on a Mac? Could you save a range of pages as a new PDF from the Print dialog?

wha happens when you try opening it in photoshop?

i have acrobat professional. i am on a mac. i can neither print a PDF nor do file>save ... like i said, basically every drop-down menu is totally grayed-out.

annoying because i can download articles off of JSTOR, Wiley Interscience, ERIC, Ed Fulltext, etc etc and those are all C&P-able. but this one random book (off of ERIC) doesn't want to work.

dude you can extract pages w/adobe professional even i know that

oh it sounds like some weird copyright thing

the document is "locked w/ a password" my friend. a username / password dialogue comes up. i'll do it and post a pic later - gotta get to campus now.

FUCK A COPYRIGHT I'M A SCHOLAR AND A PUBLIC SERVANT IN THE EMPLOY OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

glenn kim to thread

oh you want some kind of john the ripper app for cracking the passwd on the document. I know of ones for office docs but haven't used any for pdf. could ask a coworker

I looked into this last time I needed this (colleges of claremont, your PDF map has a password that prevents printing, you fucking cretins) and couldn't find a trivial workaround. If you're on OS X 10.4 you can try opening the PDF in ColorSync Utility, which apparently ignores all this bullshit.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200512231728165&lsrc=osxh

http://pdfkey.com/ just worked for me (OS X)

I understand that Adobe would respect it's own password and not let you rasterize the files (or better yet, open with Illustrator), but what about placing them in Quark? Can you place a locked PDF in quark then save a PS file from Quark, print from quark or even make a new non-protected PDF from Quark?

here's a protected file if you want to try: http://www.cuc.claremont.edu/maps/colleges_map_key.pdf

You can save individual pdf pages as .ps using ghostview, but I have no idea how that reacts to secured files.

Quark couldn't import the file "due to an unknown error". As predicted, InDesign and Illustrator both said "cannot import protected file".

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