This has bitten me lately too.
Tangentially, I am sometimes able to shrink pdf's with shrinkpdf, but it
is not 100%. But that doesn't solve the "password" issue, which is, I
fear, an attempt by Adobe to seize a part of the common pasture by
unilaterally putting up fences.
JN
On 14-02-26 07:51 PM, Charles MacDonald wrote:
> A web site that I often visit to get technical information has started
> to use ADOBE 10 to compress the Scans of Manuals that they sell.
>
> OCULAR asks for a password for these documents and then says it can't
> open them. The Fellow behind the web site of course does not understand
> why I just don't download the closed source reader, citing abobe's claim
> that adobe 10 has less mallware. The folks who run the site do see a
> legitimate benefit in that the Adobe 10 apparently manages to produce
> smaller files sizes.
>
> I cringe any time I have to install anything from adobe (My bank
> sometimes uses Acrobat for their forms) and delete it as soon as
> possible. This would mean that I would have to do a multi-meg download
> several times a week in order to access the file, and worry that the
> format might not be readable when I want it in a couple of years.
>
> IS there any trick to get the adobe 10 documents to behave as legal PDF
> files?
>
> {I suppose I could download the reader and Print to PDF, then delete the
> reader, but that seems like going around in circles)
>
> There is another site that also has been using it, but I have forgone
> using the information there because of the same issue.
>
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