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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is There any filter to turn Adobe 10 Documents into standard PDF.

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is There any filter to turn Adobe 10 Documents into standard PDF.
  • From: "Prof J C Nash (U30A)" <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:53:15 -0500
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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