Micheal,
This might not help you with given you're on XP. I use an OSX app
called Skim to manage and annotate sources for my papers. Its a
fantastic tool. Might even make it worth going to a Mac.
Charles
http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It
I've had some PDF files that couldn't be printed directly to the Adobe
PDF printer (WinXP Pro) - couldn't copy/paste, couldn't save as another
file type, couldn't do anything except look at it or print hard copy.
Security won.
So, a work-around that worked was to print hard copy and then
Andy Gallant and Daniel Else
STOP!
Criminal acts are not allowed on this discussion list. You are committing
speech crimes that violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Providing directions for circumvention is a criminal act.
If you want to put yourselves in danger of prosecution
Tom Piwowar wrote:
Michael, if the creator of a PDF file locks it you have to respect that lock.
That is the law. Any speech about breaking the lock violates the DMCA. You
either respect the lock, find a more open supplier, or apply to the LOC for a
waver (I think they accept petitions every 2
I apologize for bringing up the issue and for drawing in others to provide
workarounds.
Thank you. I wish we lived in a freer country, but we don't.
So that our shackles don't get screwed even tighter everyone needs to pay
attention to the Network Neutrality law introduced in Congress this
Michael, if the creator of a PDF file locks it you have to respect that lock.
That is the law. Any speech about breaking the lock violates the DMCA. You
either respect the lock, find a more open supplier, or apply to the LOC for a
waver (I think they accept petitions every 2 years).
I
I might be ordering PDF files of medical journal articles and might have to
highlight them to support statements in text of an article that I am working
on. I have a Windows XP computer.
But first, here is Adobe's FAQ about highlighting with Reader:
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrfaq.html
Mike, if you have someone in the family who qualifies for the Adobe Acrobat
Education pricing structure, I'd recommend that you go ahead and purchase AA
Professional. It is a terrific discount. That will allow you to do anything you
want to a pdf.
Dan
Daniel Else wrote:
Mike, if you have someone in the family who qualifies for the Adobe Acrobat
Education pricing structure, I'd recommend that you go ahead and purchase AA
Professional. It is a terrific discount. That will allow you to do anything you
want to a pdf.
Dan,
Not anything! Turns
Can the file be printed? On a Mac you can print to Preview, then save
again as a PDF. Is there a Windows equivalent you can use?
Daniel Else wrote:
Mike, if you have someone in the family who qualifies for the Adobe Acrobat
Education pricing structure, I'd recommend that you go ahead and
There are various tricks of the trade to recreate files that have various
reproduction restrictions. I don't have Adobe Reader on the computer, but with
Professional I can print a PDF to an Adobe PDF printer, which may be what is
referred to with the Mac. This prints the document to a new file.
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