[Full-Disclosure] adobe password protect.

From: Attica (attica@stackheap.org)
Date: 03/25/03

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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:12:04 -0500

    Dunno if anyone has seen this before, or a variation thereof, if so, sorry
    for the duplication.

    I received a password protected .pdf file. I'm running Mac OS X, and the
    default viewer is preview. Upon opening the doc, I got a password prompt
    telling me that I could view the doc and print it, but I couldn't copy/paste
    anything. So I try to open it in Acrobat Reader, and sure enough, the edit
    commands are greyed out.

    Well, Mac OS X gives you the ability to save any document as a pdf, so I did
    that and saved it as another pdf file. And now, I can copy to my heart's
    content. Evidently that copy-protection isn't carried forward in this
    operation.

    Not very technical, and probably trivial, but it might be nice to know...

    ~S

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