atw: Re: pdf security

This sounds like a great trick. However, I just tried it with a secure
PDF (one of my own!) using Acrobat Professional 9 and it didn't work. I
opened the PDF, then went to File > Print and selected Adobe PDF as the
printer. I got this message in the process:
 
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
This PostScript file was created from an encrypted PDF file.
Redistilling encrypted PDF is not permitted.
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
 
No PDF was created, secure or otherwise -- just this log file.
 
It's likely that Adobe have locked this down in more recent versions of
Acrobat. Unless there's another trick to printing it to PDF that I've
missed.
 
Rhonda

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Subject: atw: Re: pdf security


Bill,

One trick I have used to extract content out of a locked PDF is to print
the pdf to pdf.

The outcome that is generated will not be locked.

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