Unlocking PDFs

idiot

Why?

Because it's JW...he's an idiot.

Isn't it about time that _everyone_ killfiled bloggs? ...Jim Thompson

LOL, any excuse to put that self-promoting signature out there, eh?

No. You are as obnoxious as possible. I think you are Alwayswrong wearing the nym. You are disgusting to the limit.

Thanks. I've seen this before, but I lost it.

For some reason some IC manufacturers insist on locking their data sheets against copying. That makes it hard to copy data into a document requiring manual entry of data which is error prone. I have no idea what they are so worried about. They also make it impossible to add notes to their data sheets and this fixes that problem.

What's the matter Fred, did your right hand turn you down again?

Elcomsoft can unlock and even crack (find a password) for them. (Advanced PDF Password Recovery) It costs a little bit.

Unlocking the "security" against printing, editing, et al takes a second. Finding a working unlock password can take days or longer.

If you can enable printing, you can then print to a virtual printer using pdfs, can you not? And that one has no password, has it?

All the locked PDF's I've seen prevent printing to a PDF. However I've been successful printing to PS (PostScript) then run the PS file thru a distiller to get back to a PDF. ...Jim Thompson

I've done that before, but you get an image type document rather than text based. The purpose for me was to be able to copy bits of specs. An image defeats that.

Yes, usually, but the result is often not searchable. That's a real bummer in a 1000+ page datasheet.

So far I've had no problems printing a PDF to a file using Cute PDF and then modifying the documents. Maybe I have not run into the really secure PDFs. YMMV.