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To: Wizard who wrote (94)2/5/2002 11:33:15 AM
From: GraceZ  Respond to of 167
 
This next-gen Acrobat version has too much security to copy/paste

Here's how you copy a PDF that has copy protection, use it at your own risk:

Put a postscript printer on FILE. Print the PDF you want to copy to the postscript printer on FILE. The resulting file will have a .prn extension. Change this to .ps. If you have distiller on your machine, double click on the .ps file. Distiller will then open up and create a Acrobat PDF document which is completely free of those protections. If you don't have Distiller (I can't remember if I got it with a program I paid for or if its downloadable)

I've also heard there is a website that will translate .ps files into PDFs for free but I've never been there. There are also a number of shareware programs that open .ps files.

There's nothing more irritating then reading a PDF and not being able to cut and paste out of it.