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[Janina Sajka]

Brian:

There are patches to get around the printing restriction. See the Adobe 
Remedies page at http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/

And, if the copyright police come knocking on your door, call me. As a 
blind person in the U.S., you have a right to these files.

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Brian Borowski wrote:

> 
> There are certainly pdf files that I cannot convert, for two main reasons.
> Either, there are some unknown character sets that pdftotext can't figure
> out how to deal with, or printing is not allowed.  The problem is, that if
> printing isn't allowed, then we can't even convert them to display at all
> and therefore, we can't read them.  I will try and find out how to get
> around this restriction, because it does not apply in our case, anyway.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 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!
> > > >
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> > 				Janina Sajka, Director
> > 				Technology Research and Development
> > 				Governmental Relations Group
> > 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> >
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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

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org