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Subject:RE: Lost Password in Acrobat 6 From:cchris -at- toptechwriter -dot- us To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:03:35 -0700
Hi Donna,
Hmmm, all I know is it worked when I tried it 5 years ago using Acrobat 3.
Obviously there've been some changes made ;)
Couple of questions:
1. After you removed the password, did you do a Save As to overwrite the
original? If you didn't, I think the password remains in effect.
2. Did you try printing to a PostScript file and distilling that or did
you run the Distiller plugin that's used with Word? Printing to a PS file
and distilling it in GhostScript or the Mac's Preview app might be a
workaround.
--Chris
> > -----Chris wrote:-----
> > Did she password protect everything or it printing allowed?=20
> > Because, if
> > printing's enabled, just print it out as a new PDF and you'll=20
> > have full
> > access.
>
>
> I had to try doing this to find out if it works because we use password =
> protection for our PDF files. I got the following message when I tried =
> to redistill the resulting file:
>
> This PostScript file was created from an encrypted PDF file.
> Redistilling encrypted PDF is not permitted.
>
> I had to completely remove document security (just removing the password =
> wasn't enough) before I could print to a postscript file that could be =
> distilled. This was true for both 40-bit and 128-bit encryption modes. =
> I'm using Acrobat 5.0.5, so I can't speak to how 6.0 would handle the =
> issue.
>
> Donna
>
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