Yeah, the files are encrypted. If you run ps2ascii, it will spit the file back out too, but will give the URL where you can get the patch to ps2ascii/pdftotext to try to decrypt the files. I've had mixed results with it myself. Greg On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 04:14:13AM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi, list. Have a problem here. It is with the pdf files I have. > > some pdf files will convert with no problem using pdftotext, but I have some > Linux books from Sam's which simply will not convert. Trying to do so in > Adobe Acrobat Reader didn't help. > when I inquired about it Sam's said they did that for copy protection. Is > there anyway to force a pdf file into text when it has been secured? > > I'm getting frustrated because although Sam's will give me ebooks they > insist on pdf format only. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
