RE: PDF modifications?

["Dawes, Rogan (ZA - Johannesburg)" <rdawes () deloitte co za>]

My mistake. See http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/cracking.html

But, nonetheless, it is simple to make the mods, I'm sure.

Rogan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]
> Sent: 17 May 2002 02:51
> To: Dawes, Rogan (ZA - Johannesburg)
> Cc: 'Sumit Dhar'; Kurt Seifried; bad bob; vuln-dev
> Subject: Re: PDF modifications? 
>
>
> On Fri, 17 May 2002 08:14:18 +0200, "Dawes, Rogan (ZA - 
> Johannesburg)" said:
>
> > If the PDF is openable and viewable, but is "protected", so 
> that you can't
> > select or print or annotate, that is easily bypassed with almost any
> > non-Adobe PDF viewer, such as xpdf, which simply elects not 
> to honour that
> > setting in the PDF. The data is all there, because you can 
> view it, it is
> > simply a case of the software choosing to not let you 
> select it. Find some
> > software that doesn't honour those document settings, and 
> you are on your
> > way.
> >
> > As I recall, there was some discussion about this issue on 
> the xpdf lists,
> > or somewhere, about whether xpdf should honour the document 
> requests or not,
> > but it is really moot, since the source is there, just 
> modify it to suit. I
> > think that was the conclusion by the xpdf developers, so 
> they simply didn't
> > bother honouring the setting.
>
> This must have been pre-DMCA. I would recommend that the xpdf
> developers not visit the US, lest they be Skylarov'ed.
>
> (The vuln-dev connection?  Consider why Alan Cox censored a 
> Linux kernel
> changelog - but further discussion should probably be moved 
> to a political
> list.  If you're in the US and of voting age, contact your 
> Congresscreature
> and tell them you want them to support Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) in his
> attempts to fix the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA).
>
> We now return you to your regularly scheduled vuln-dev 
> discussion, which
> may be in violation of the anti-circumvention clause....
> -- 
>                               Valdis Kletnieks
>                               Computer Systems Senior Engineer
>                               Virginia Tech