My office computer is on lockdown, and I don't want to push the limits too hard. However, it is necessary in my job to unfortunately work with PDF documents. PDFTK is brilliant in that I can open and manipulate most PDF docs. However, lately there are a few that come to me SECURED. I may print to a normal printer with the docs, but I cannot crack it open or remove the restrictions.
I am looking for a simple, non-installable, completely portable solution that will do one of two things for me:
1) allow me to remove the restrictions so I may manipulate the file in PDFTK
or
2) allow me to print the secured PDF to regular PDF, which will allow me to do the same.
Right now I am printing the docs and scanning them to PDF in order to achieve the results I need. Also, I am stuck on Windows Explorer for my web browser (not even the latest version, either).
Thoughts?
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Anything that you need to install a printer driver for (say allowing you to 'print' a secure PDF) would require admin rights, so won't work for you.
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True -- so that just leaves me with the only other option of possibly stripping the security from the PDF document, rendering it a normal PDF that I can then crack open and rearrange with PDFTK. Any thoughts?
there were times when I was printing locked pdf to microsoft xps 'printer' delivered with the office and then tried to import this to into other docs and produced from there new (not locked) pdf.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
OK, so I printed to Microsoft XPS. Then I used a free app called "CheckPrixa XPS to PDF" to convert it right back to PDF, and I have a document I can use and manipulate as I need to.
Excellent tip!
Now, i just need "CheckPrixa XPS to PDF" to be added to the list of available portable apps!
Depending on the document, can't you just use LibreOffice? Or do you mean PDF from things like a web page too
He's talking about an existing PDF with security enabled.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!