From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 02:17:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37BE16A4BF for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 02:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D38D43FB1 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 02:17:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (37.80-203-228.nextgentel.com [80.203.228.37]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id B887779531; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:17:11 +0200 (MEST) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 65B2296A93; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:17:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (dwp.des.no [10.0.0.4]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 9A96896A92; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:17:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 40C97B824; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:17:07 +0200 (CEST) To: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) References: <20030903173430.GA14686@online.fr> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:17:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Gary W. Swearingen's message of "Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:04:37 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=8.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_GNUS_UA version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:17:14 -0000 underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: > Typical PDF files are "open", but some PDF fils have "security" > features (eg, to prevent printing or copying). Sklyarov and his > employer got in trouble over some software that could break similar > security features of a different Adobe product. So PDF files which > use PDF security features are presumably covered by the DMCA too. I've had some experience with "locked" PDF files (online manuals which were marked as "unprintable" so as not to compete with the print version available in bookstores). I was not able to print them directly, but simply converting them to PS using Ghostscript worked fine, and there was no problem at all printing the resulting PS (except for the non-standard paper size). DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no