Re: Xpdf fuckware
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:17:10AM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote:
> > "Error: The author has requested that copying of text from this document be
> > forbidden. Use -ignoreperms to do so anyway."
> >
> > ?
>
> Adam Langley (author of the patch) has privately suggested
>
> "The author of this PDF has requested that you don't [copy
> text|print]. Use the -ignoreperms option to do this"
>
> which I think is fine.
Hmm, such a message would confuse me if I got it. It seems words
missing somehow. There should at least be an "anyway" at the end,
to make clear that "do this" doesn't mean "honour the request".
Richard Braakman
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