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Q: How can I print a pdf of which the security setting is changed so that it cannot be printed? Should it be converted or is there a crack to enable that function? [Q1]
A: Email the owner of the document and ask their permission to be able to print the document. One must presume that the author has chosen to not let you print for a reason.
Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com) [A1]
A: http://www.elcomsoft.com/apdfpr.html
Vladimir Katalov (vkatalov@elcomsoft.com) [A2]
A: http://www.password-crackers.com/crack/guapdf.html
Christian Koch (christian_koch@gmx.de) [A3]
A: http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~laird/PDF/
Christian Koch (christian_koch@gmx.de) [A4]
A: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
Michael Mantz (michael.mantz@de.bosch.com) [A5]
A: [Please note that there is more discussion on this topic in the security section of this document]
Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com) [A6]
Q: I'd like to print a pdf file directly to a printer (or at least without human intervention) from a program running in the background on a win32 type of machine. [Q2]
A: If you have a Postscript level 3 printer, its easy. Just send the file to the printer, since PS 3 devices can directly print pdf files. Acrobat is not required.
To sent it to the printer you can use lpr on Win, or any Unix, PRINT on any Win platform, or COPY on any Win platform.
On the Mac, you probably need to use a font download utility and Applescript.
Dan Sideen (dansideen@home.com) [A7]
A: Adobe Acrobat 5.0 appears to offer this choice. It is not in the free Reader. I don't know what kind of printers it works with.
Aandi Inston (quite@dial.pipex.com) [A162]
A: I don't think you need a utility. After you've pressed the print command, a dialog box appears with three options in the field "Copies and Adjustments": shrick oversized pages to paper size; exapnd small pages to paper size; and auto-rotate and centre pages. By default, all options are activated. At least you should deactivate the first option.
Stefan Treutlein (streutlein@icqmail.com) [A163]
Q: I have a 26K pdf file that I created that contains 2 tif images and I'm using /Filter[/CCITTFaxDecode] to interpret the compression. What happens is the pdf file takes a long time to print (4 minutes on a HP LaserJet 2100 with the HP LaserJet 2100 print driver), but actual print job is at 1.83mb, whereas when I use a HP5si Laserjet network printer, my print job is only 300K and it prints immediately). The computer is a pentium 200 with 64mb of RAM and WIN95. Does anyone know why the print job is so large? Or why it takes so long? Is it the commpressed images being converted to pcl that could be taking a long time? [Q119]
A: We learnt the hard way at work that postscript doesn't deal with biggish bitmap images. This is what the PDF is producing with your CCITT Group 4 images. You'll probably find that the problem is that your print engine is not coping with the processing. There might also be issues with spooling the large bitmaps.
Try PCL on the problem printer and things should go better -- you might find that the network printer is already PCL.
Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com) [A171]
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