[Gllug] PDFs

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 17:46, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> On Sat 15 Nov, Richard Turner bloviated thus:
> 
> > Using a PDF with copy-n-paste disabled isn't a full-proof
> > method by any means, but it was a quick solution that the average
> > Windows user wouldn't have been able to crack.
> 
> You mean fool-proof?  Or its synonym, recruiter-proof?
> 
> Even the average Linux user can't crack it.  The Ghostscript and xpdf
> guys don't allow it, but there are readily available patches.

The debian xpdf packages are built to ignore PDF security settings by
default. The code that checks for them is just #ifdef'ed out.

Mike.


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