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[ILUG] PDF protection.

[ILUG] PDF protection.

Declan Moriarty junk_mail at iol.ie
Tue Feb 28 17:46:13 GMT 2006


Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> Colm Buckley wrote:
> 
> >On 28 Feb 2006, at 16:23, Gary Pigott wrote:
> >
> >>That won't work. I tried doing just that a few weeks ago and
> >>Acrobat refuses to print a PDF with DRM to the PDF "printer".
> >>There is another way  though.  If you've got Office 2003
> >>installed, print to the "Microsft Office  Document Image
> >>Writer", which'll output an MDI file that you can open and
> >>print as a PDF.
> >
> >
> >Or do it on a Linux system.  You know, Linux, like in the
> >mailing list?
> 
> which it seems he tried first & it didnt work, "like" but then
> again. who needs the mental overhead of choices :)

Have you farted around with
<wherever you hid ghostscript>/version/lib/decrypt.ps

There's some neat way of running many of those ps files as filters
to a ghostscript invocation. I haven't tried with this in years.
How about

gs -dBATCH -dQUIET -dSAFER -sDEVICE=decrypt.ps yourfile.ps > newname.ps

Hmmm... it doesn't look good but then I don't have an encrypted

-- 

	With best Regards,


	Declan Moriarty.



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