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SPDF File help

Good luck. I always print it out and scan it back to a PDF. I have never figured out how to circumvent the security on the better implementations.

reply to smerre01
Have you tried using Adobe Acrobat Pro and the combine feature? I use it to combine a bunch of PDF reports into one PDF. Unsure if it will do it with your sealed PDF files, but worth a shot if you've got it.
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if you have print access, print each individual chapter to a new pdf using cutePDF.

then merge the unprotected PDFs

reply to smerre01
pdf password cracker should do the trick. its trialware and should work for up to X amount of times. Or x amount of days, I don't recall, i used it months ago!

»www.crackpdf.com/ I used 3.1 and it looks like its the same one still available.

as someone else pointed out, you could use a different PDF reader to open them too. Many times the same security will NOT pass over to the 3rd party reader. It's definitely worth a shot.

I have had PDFs that were secured and couldn't find anything to get around it. Tried different readers, printing to various PDF printers, and PDF cracker programs. If they spent good money to lock it down more than likely you won't be able to circumvent it. If they used the free tools available with Acrobat paid versions you can probably get around it.

reply to smerre01
Okay, been slammed just got a chance to come back and post, I can't even open them in Adobe pro at all, it refuses to do it, you have to download some oracle unsealer software to even open the damn things, really annoying. I tried to use the print to pdf function, it detects that it is a digital print out and refuses to process it, so that doesn't work. I tried all of that before posting here. The password cracker I have not tried, that could be interesting. However I don't forsee it working. It prompts me for a username and password just to open the files, it has to work in conjunction w/ the oracle unsealer application. Obviously there is some form of an Admin login for these things. That would be the trick, but impossible to get I am sure.

Just sucks really, I mean I am not trying to do anything malicious w/ the files, just want to combine them into one file that makes it easier to search the entire book at once. One thought I have is printing a chapter to paper, then scanning it back in to a .pdf file, then seeing if object recognition will pickup the text okay.

reply to smerre01
Hey guess what, apparently I can't even friggin print the damn things. It tells me some error about creating a digital image and then won't print. Point being don't spend 60 bucks to get an e-book from cengagebrain.com because it will ultimately be a bigger hassle.

reply to smerre01
This does the trick

»www.zimbio.com/IT+Security/artic···Security

The spdf won't print to cuteftp or any other windows printer that is know to produce digital copies, but you can print to a linux CUPS pdf which is similar to what cutePDF does for windows.

This works pefect, once you have the pdf's, use acrobat to merge back into a single pdf

One thing to note, Cehgagbrain puts you email on every single page

reply to smerre01
Probably spent $60 just in the value of his time. Now everyone can benefit from it.