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    Need some Geek help on a PDF with printing restrictions

    I have downloaded the owner handbook PDF for my bike but the Document Restriction on Printing is set to "Not Allowed". Can anyone suggest how to get around this?

    The best I can come up with myself is taking screenshots of the pages but there's 110 of them and I'm too lazy for that...
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    well if you have adobe writer yaself might be able to hack it or sometimes you can 'highlight the text and copy'

    if ya want ya can email it to me, and i see what i can sort out

    pm for email address

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    Not the 'geekiest' person but can you not "save as" then try printing from the copy?

    Or change the extension? Import into word?
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    Quote Originally Posted by bert_is_evil View Post
    I have downloaded the owner handbook PDF for my bike but the Document Restriction on Printing is set to "Not Allowed". Can anyone suggest how to get around this?

    The best I can come up with myself is taking screenshots of the pages but there's 110 of them and I'm too lazy for that...
    I would rasterise only the pages I needed in photoshop. Same as screen shots.

    Nothing that employs post script will get past it.

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    Fucking DRM by Adobe. Complete smacktards.

    Try another PDF reader -- there's tonnes out there, I can give you some examples but they're all for linux. You might be lucky and the other PDF readers just ignore the DRM crap, or perhaps they just won't be able to read the file in the first place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat View Post
    Complete smacktards.
    Nah - I can't hate them. 15 years ago they delivered us from winblivion.

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    Ghost Script... It will most likely open it and then there are a few hacks you can do to take the restrictions off... (This job is not meant for NON-GEEK persons!!!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
    Nah - I can't hate them. 15 years ago they delivered us from winblivion.
    Further explanation? PostScript was developed between Adobe and Apple, if that's what you mean -- also, the Adobe of 1984 is not the Adobe of today wot implemented these DRM restrictions.

    PostScript is an open standard, ffs. We've been using it with LaTeX and TeX for decades. PDF is effectively just a tokenised and more compact version of PS. You should not be adding proprietary negative shit to open standards such as DRM.

    But I'm all for deliverance from winblivion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat View Post
    Further explanation? PostScript was developed between Adobe and Apple, if that's what you mean -- also, the Adobe of 1984 is not the Adobe of today wot implemented these DRM restrictions.

    PostScript is an open standard, ffs. We've been using it with LaTeX and TeX for decades. PDF is effectively just a tokenised and more compact version of PS. You should not be adding proprietary negative shit to open standards such as DRM.

    But I'm all for deliverance from winblivion.
    Aren't PDF documents specically designed to be read only? To protect the originators rights. PDF formatted docs came out well before DRM was conceived.

    Have a look here- http://www.accesspdf.com/links/index...F+Tools&page=3

    There's probably a tool there, and good advice, to do the job of changing attritutes of the file. Ghost Script has been mentioned

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bonez View Post
    Aren't PDF documents specically designed to be read only? To protect the originators rights. PDF formatted docs came out well before DRM was conceived.

    Have a look here- http://www.accesspdf.com/links/index...F+Tools&page=3

    There's probably a tool there, and good advice, to do the job of changing attritutes of the file. Ghost Script has been mentioned
    Nono, I've got no beef with PDF, I use it all the time. Just pointing out that putting DRM on top of open standards (or stuff like PDF, which is about to become an open ISO standard) is really bad form.

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    Easy if you have Distiller. Just open the PDF file and print it to the PDF writer.

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    Funny, I just tried emailing it to my hotmail address to see if it was too big to be sent from work, came back with this (I knew motorcycles could be dirty, but not like this...):

    Your email message to "xxxxxx" has been delivered.

    However it was identified by our content filtering processes as containing language that may be considered inappropriate for business-like communication. It is possible that the recipient(s) may not have received it if they run similar filtering processes. You may want to confirm with the recipient(s) that they have received the email correctly.

    A copy of this email has been redirected to an administration queue which is randomly scanned for inappropriate mail and objectionable material.

    Email that fails to comply with corporate policy may result in disciplinary action being taken.

    The corporate email policy can be found at http://intranet.xxxxx.co.nz/intranet...,10274,00.html


    The content which caused this to happen was List:Reputation Protection Keywords Found the expression "cock" 2 times, at 2 points each, for an expression score of 4 points.
    Found the expression "screw" 20 times, at 3 points each, for an expression score of 60 points.
    ================================================== ===========
    Total Message Score: 64 points.
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    So if I need to send an email to a motorcycle parts supplier asking if they can supply some screws for my fuel petcock, I'd be in trouble?
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    Quote Originally Posted by bert_is_evil View Post
    Funny, I just tried emailing it to my hotmail address to see if it was too big to be sent from work, came back with this (I knew motorcycles could be dirty, but not like this...):

    Your email message to "xxxxxx" has been delivered.

    However it was identified by our content filtering processes as containing language that may be considered inappropriate for business-like communication. It is possible that the recipient(s) may not have received it if they run similar filtering processes. You may want to confirm with the recipient(s) that they have received the email correctly.

    A copy of this email has been redirected to an administration queue which is randomly scanned for inappropriate mail and objectionable material.

    Email that fails to comply with corporate policy may result in disciplinary action being taken.

    The corporate email policy can be found at http://intranet.xxxxx.co.nz/intranet...,10274,00.html


    The content which caused this to happen was List:Reputation Protection Keywords Found the expression "cock" 2 times, at 2 points each, for an expression score of 4 points.
    Found the expression "screw" 20 times, at 3 points each, for an expression score of 60 points.
    ================================================== ===========
    Total Message Score: 64 points.
    Bahahah! Telecom just got stick for this in Sunday's Herald. Some woman (web designer, was it?) kept getting her email filtered like this because her name was `Gay Hamilton'. Unbelievable. It's so strange that companies still persist with this type of filtering when those Net-nanny type products of the early 2000s failed so miserably.

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    Call me foul-mouthed but I get these emails all the time, I even got one for a news article I sent to a friend that had the word "nasty" in it too many times.
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