Nicolas Pitre writes: Actually, it is my understanding that the official BSD overides that check by default. So, I wouldn't say "of course" about this issue. In fact, it is arguable that the restriction is illegal here in the States, though some would certainly argue that it is legal. One thing quite certain in U.S. law is that such restrictions do not apply to blind people, or to persons helping blind people get at such documents. AFB will be publishing a paper about this in the next few months. > From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> > > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 janina@afb.net wrote: > > > This wouldn't get files that have the bits set to prevent conversion to text. See: > > Well... if you download the source for pdftotext (from the xpdf package) you > can overide the check on those bits pretty easily. Official distribution of > xpdf can't obviously have that check removed of course. But I believe that > what you personally do privately on your own computer is up to you. > > BTW, since someone mentioned the existence of a pdftohtml package available > on the net, I downloaded the source and improved them a bit so it now > produces really nice and useful HTML out of all the PDF files I've converted > so far. I'd even say humbly that with my changes pdftohtml is now producing > equal or even better HTML than what Adobe's online conversion tool is doing. > And of course my initial issue with sending confidential documents over to > Adobe is now no more. > > If someone wants the patch just tell me. > > > Nicolas > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list