Free Book About PHP Available

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Nevertheless pdftotext just goes right ahead and converts the PHP
Intro book without as much as a grumble or a qualm.

On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Brian:
>
> The XPDF home page at http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/cracking.html says the
> following:
>
>
>    "If any security features are turned on by the creator of a PDF
> document, the PDF file will be encrypted. These
>    security features let an author disallow printing, copying
> text/graphics, editing, and/or adding annotations.
>
>    "The Xpdf package honors these permission settings. Specifically:
>      * xpdf will not copy/paste from a PDF file which disallows copying
> text/graphics
>      * xpdf and pdftops will not print (convert to PostScript) a PDF file
> which disallows printing
>      * pdftotext will not convert a PDF file which disallows copying
> text/graphics
>      * pdfimages will not extract images from a PDF file which disallows
> copying text/graphics
>
>    "I occasionally get email asking if I can explain how to crack a PDF
> file, or if I can help decrypt a PDF file. I won't
>    help these people because I believe that an author's requests relating
> to the use of his/her work should be honored."
>
> Of course, there are patches out there to inhibit these restrictions and a
> soon to be published paper from AFB will demonstrate that people who are
> blind have the legal right in the U.S. to circumvent such measures. Some
> of these patches are referenced at the page entitled "A Gallery of Adobe
> Remedies," which is at http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/, though
> I have not succeeded in getting the ones I've tried to work.
>
> Are you saying that the Debian distribution of XPDF inhibits these
> restrictions by default?
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Brian Borowski wrote:
>
> > There are no problems in converting this book.  Here's an easy recipe.
> >
> > *  Assume you are running that most superb distribution of linux known as
> > debian; there's been a couple of nasty things said about debian recently by
> > a couple of people on here...
> >
> > * and you don't have xpdf installed, then do:
> > apt-get install xpdf
> >
> > * then:
> > xpdf 1893115852_xx.pdf
> > for each chapter.
> >
> > * You will end up with  .txt files which are quite readable; though, they
> > have a little bit of leading space at the start of the lines, but
> > then:
> >
> > you could strip these with a one-line perl script like
> >
> > perl -pe 's/^\s+//;' input-file >output-file
> >
> > or something like that...
> >
> > Brian Borowski
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Hollie Fischer <hollie_fischer at apress.com>
> > >
> > > Good Afternoon from Apress!
> > >
> > > We have made available for free download "A Programmer's Introduction to PHP
> > > 4.0"  by Jason Gilmore. To download a copy of the book for FREE, please
> > > visit www.apress.com/books/electronic/1893115852/.
> > >
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> > > Kind Regards,
> > > Hollie
> > >
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>
> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Technology Research and Development
> 				Governmental Relations Group
> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
> Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
>
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