Re: PDF "encryption"

2007-08-20 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Bob Walker [2007-08-20 19:15]: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > >On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 17:38 +0100, Earle Martin wrote: > >> > >>http://chosaq.net/archives/2006/05/gmail-cripples-drmed-pdf-files-view-as-html-functionality.html > > > >Which brings me to another hatred - when was the

Re: PDF "encryption"

2007-08-20 Thread Bob Walker
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 17:38 +0100, Earle Martin wrote: http://chosaq.net/archives/2006/05/gmail-cripples-drmed-pdf-files-view-as-html-functionality.html Which brings me to another hatred - when was the HTML 'title' element deprecated ? it hasnt b

Re: PDF "encryption"

2007-08-20 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 17:38 +0100, Earle Martin wrote: > > http://chosaq.net/archives/2006/05/gmail-cripples-drmed-pdf-files-view-as-html-functionality.html > Which brings me to another hatred - when was the HTML 'title' element deprecated ? -- My guitar kills bloggers

Re: PDF "encryption"

2007-08-20 Thread Earle Martin
On 20/08/07, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 20-Aug-2007, at 09:00, Chris Devers wrote: > > If the Adobe software can open it sans password, then surely Google > > should be able to either reverse engineer that ability, or license > > the ability to do so from Adobe. > > Assuming Adobe wants them to ha

Re: PDF "encryption"

2007-08-20 Thread Michael Jinks
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:32:13AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > > The amount of stupid hateful wetware around the whole subject of > encryption is, of course, amazing. And lots of it spends much of its workday wrapped in black robes. I could easily imagine a course of events thus: - Moron

PDF "encryption"

2007-08-20 Thread Earle Martin
Gmail provides a very helpful view-PDF-attachment-as-HTML tool. It works for my needs 99% of the time. Except when I get some particular PDFs, clicking upon which in Gmail producing this message: "The attachment cannot be viewed as HTML because the author has placed restrictions on its content. D

Re: PDF "encryption"

2007-08-20 Thread Peter da Silva
On 20-Aug-2007, at 09:00, Chris Devers wrote: If the Adobe software can open it sans password, then surely Google should be able to either reverse engineer that ability, or license the ability to do so from Adobe. Assuming Adobe wants them to have that ability, and won't sue them for rever

Re: PDF "encryption"

2007-08-20 Thread Chris Devers
On Aug 20, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Earle Martin wrote: Except when I get some particular PDFs, clicking upon which in Gmail producing this message: "The attachment cannot be viewed as HTML because the author has placed restrictions on its content. Download the attachment to view it in its original fo