RE: This file is protected...

[holmegm -at- comcast -dot- net]

I wrote:

>>So it boils down to whether the viewer software honors 
>>a little flag requesting "please don't print me".  For 
>>any non-copyright-infringing use, I'll write whatever 
>>software I want, thank you very much.  Or modify the 
>>source to an open source PDF viewer, and recompile.  
>>No "cracking" is necessary :)

Then John Posada wrote: 

> It allows printing. It only doesn't allow modification, and in Acrobat's
> thinking, insertign a page or distilling from PS to PDF is modification.

Right.  But my point was that anything short of placing the whole document 
(viewing and all), behind a password, isn't real encryption, it is more of a 
request to the application that it not perform certain functions.

It was the reference to "cracking" that I was responding to.  Whatever it is,
not honoring a request to handle data in some ways but not others isn't really 
"cracking".

Just nitpicking on my part, I guess ;)

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