Print once, make as many copies as needed from the "master" printout?  You
can also try a print driver that will print to a pdf file.  I have adobe
acrobat 5 and it comes with such a driver, BUT, there are protected docs out
there that will not print to this driver.

Good luck.


-Mario

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU [mailto:piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of
Vitaliy
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 8:59 PM
To: piclist
Subject: [OT] PDFs/DRM (Digital Rights Management) -- how to disable?


Hi List,

I've bought a technical paper that is protected by DRM. The limitations are 
ridiculous. Once I open the document, it's permanently locked to that 
computer. And, I can only print it once -- even if the print is unsuccessful

(as was the case this time).

I want to be able to open the document on my laptop, as well as the work 
computer. And I want to be able to print copies -- to write notes on, 
replace pages with coffee stains, etc etc.

Are there tools that can disable DRM? Commercial solutions will be 
considered, as I plan to purchase other protected documents in the future.

If that's not an option, is there a way to convert a DRM-protected PDF to a 
plain PDF, while preserving appearance and formatting? The best I could come

up with, was to print the PDF, scan the pages into Acrobat, and run them 
through an OCR.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Best regards,

Vitaliy 

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