How do you pay to unlock them? I don't know the least of C anyway. The trace site ought to tweak their copy, but adobe'd hate that. At 05:21 PM 1/17/03 -0500, you wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Steve Pattison" <srp@bigpond.net.au> >To: <gui-talk@nfbnet.org> >Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 5:06 PM >Subject: Fwd: pdf conversion details and options > > >From: Aaron Howell aaron@kitten.net.au >To: vip-l@softspeak.com.au > >There's a really neet way of converting locked pdf files to text without >paying a cent, and without having to wait for scanning software to do its >thing. >The below assumes a basic knowledge of C, and either that you have access to >a Linux box, or that you have a copy of cygwin and know how to use it. >The program which runs the pdf2txt email service at the trace centre is >called pdftotext, and its part of a suite called xpdf, >which is a free alternative to acrobat reader designed to run under >Xwindows. >The nice thing about xpdf is that there's source code available and its very >readable. >There is only 1 place (or two if you want the pretty gui interface) where >the program has to be patched to disable the security check and go ahead and >decode the file whether its locked or not. >Its as simple as commenting out 1 if statement (and if you're committed >enough to free access to your pdf documents, you will be able to find it >from there). >Once you make the necessary change(s), its as simple as >./configure >make >make install. >(with appropriate tweaks to the build process if running under cygwin.) >The whole process took me about 10 minutes from unpacking the source to >happily reading locked pdf files, >and most of that time was build process. >So there's an alternative to having to pay to have your files unlocked. >(Adobe really ought to allow locked files to be accessed within acrobat >reader with jaws and window eyes if they want people to take their >accessibility effort seriously, otherwise they're a bit of a joke). > >Regards >Aaron > >Regards Steve >mailto:srp@bigpond.net.au >MSN Messenger: Internetuser383@hotmail.com > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >