[WEB4LIB] Locked PDF files

[Daniel Zimmel]

Andrew,

why not simply use an alternative viewer? Most of them ignore Acrobat 
encryptions and will print fine, nevertheless...
My local copy of GSView (Ghostscript) for example had no problems 
whatsoever with printing a sample page of your document below.
It comes with a "free public license". No DRM-circumvention hacks necessary 
(well, at least not outside the US... :-) )

(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)

Cheers, Daniel

At 08:53 31.01.2005 -0800, Andrew Mutch wrote:
>We just ran into a first - a PDF file locked so that it couldn't be printed.
>This PDF was for a class schedule at one of the state universities. I can
>understand locking these files to keep them from being changed but no
>printing? Is this just someone being overzealous with the security or is this
>standard practice for these kinds of documents? Also, does anyone have hints
>of how to work around such settings to allow a patron to print that document?
>
>If you want to see the document, go here:
>
>http://www.registrars.cmich.edu/courses/classsched.htm
>
>and select the Spring 2005 link.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Andrew Mutch
>Library Systems Technician
>Waterford Township Public Library
>Waterford, MI

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