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[mojako]

Is there any way to make a PDF document which is not copyable? including with the Ctrl+C function
EDIT: and not convertable to other formats like Word
but either not copyable or not convertable is fine too

And to answer inasero:
open the PDF file. there's a "Select Text" button (or something similar).. click on that and you can select text as you can in Word. Then copy as you copy in Word, by clickng on Edit > Copy after you've selected the text. Then in Word, click on Edit > Paste.

 

[redruM]

how do i copy and paste in adobe acrobat?

you cant directly paste into a pdf file

 

[redruM]

Is there any way to make a PDF document which is not copyable? including with the Ctrl+C function
EDIT: and not convertable to other formats like Word
but either not copyable or not convertable is fine too

And to answer inasero:
open the PDF file. there's a "Select Text" button (or something similar).. click on that and you can select text as you can in Word. Then copy as you copy in Word, by clickng on Edit > Copy after you've selected the text. Then in Word, click on Edit > Paste.

you'd have to make it into some sort of image before you convert it into pdf? not sure...just giveing ideas....

if you think about it, it might work, how? i dont know.

 

[mojako]

you'd have to make it into some sort of image before you convert it into pdf? not sure...just giveing ideas....

if you think about it, it might work, how? i dont know.

hmm... ok.

 

[pc_wizz]

remember to lower the jpeg quality of the images before converting to pdf ... because it will just end up as a large ass file ...

 

[Frigid]

Is there any way to make a PDF document which is not copyable? including with the Ctrl+C function
EDIT: and not convertable to other formats like Word
but either not copyable or not convertable is fine too

impossible. even if you protect the document with pdf or word, i can just take screenshots, save as TIF and then OCR the image back into text.

 

[fatmuscle]

if it's a 100 page document?

 

[mojako]

if it's a 100 page document?

print screen and OCR 100 times..
if the page is A3 or if you want details?
set the screen to higher resolution..

if the screen is LCD and for whatever reason there's no higher resolution than 1024x768?
print screen more than 100 times and combine the pics ^_^

umm sounds impractical though...

 

[AsyLum]

Hmm, with cutepdf, there seems to be a lot of garbage being put through the process to get it into a pdf, (JPG > PDF)

ive got ~300 kb > ~500 kb with the process.

Am i doing something wrong, or are pdf's bloated ?

 

[mojako]

that happened to me too
have u tried any other program?

with me I just reduced the printing resolution but it's still larger than the original file. didn't bother trying another tool. I only need PDF conversion once or twice.

 

[sunny]

Am i doing something wrong, or are pdf's bloated ?

PDFs based purely on graphics do get somewhat bloated - unless you use compression options (which I don't think are avaliable in CutePDF).

 

[snapperhead]

one question here, how would you convert pdf files into word files?

if you have a mac/access to a mac, open the pdf in BBEdit, cut and paste into word.....


or you can buy pdf2word...great program.

(yes, I know its late but someone may need this!!)

OS X will print to pdf as well.........

 

[r0wlzii]

In Microsoft Word.

File->Print->Save As PDF

Dont ask me why in the hell its there but it is.

 

[sunny]

In Microsoft Word.

File->Print->Save As PDF

Dont ask me why in the hell its there but it is.

Can you get a screenshot of that?

 

[r0wlzii]

No.

If I was at school, on the Macs, then yes. I just noticed it wasnt a PC thing, but Im going to look into it. I have Office 2003, whereas school has like Office:Mac (equivilant to '76).