Problems with pdf files.

[Gregory Nowak]

Yeah, the files are encrypted.
If you run ps2ascii, it will spit the file back out too, but will give the URL where you can get the patch to ps2ascii/pdftotext to try to decrypt the files. I've had mixed results with it myself.
Greg


On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 04:14:13AM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi, list. Have a problem here. It is with the pdf files I have.
> 
> some pdf files will convert with no problem using pdftotext, but I have some
> Linux books from Sam's which simply will not convert. Trying to do so in
> Adobe Acrobat  Reader didn't help.
> when I inquired about it Sam's said they did that for copy protection. Is
> there anyway to force a pdf file into text when it has been secured?
> 
> I'm getting frustrated because although Sam's will give me ebooks they
> insist on pdf format only.
> 
> 
> 
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