But for some reason, today I thought to try something new, and it worked. This has happened to me a couple of times before, and I’ve always just cursed my bad luck and lived with the inconvenient DRM’d file. That didn’t work with this one Ghostscript threw errors during the conversion.

In the past, when I’ve run into this kind of problem, I’ve usually been able to get around the password protection by interrupting the printing of the document and converting the PostScript spool file into a PDF with a slightly hacked copy of an old version of Ghostscript. I soon learned that the PDF was password protected to disallow copying and annotating.įurthermore, I couldn’t get around the password protection by using OS X’s Print to PDF feature, because that was disallowed, too. After paying for and downloading the PDF of the standard, I opened it in Preview so I could extract the relevant section and annotate it. The standard covers the design and testing requirements for a class of building components that I’m currently analyzing, and I really just needed one particular section of the standard. This morning, as part of a project at work, I bought a standard from a professional association. Next post Previous post Another way to deDRM a PDF

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