Re: DRM PDFs

["Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <jordigh@gmail.com>]

On 28/05/2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  AFAIK the DRM in pdf files that prevent you from printing or copying text
> rely on the application to honor the restrictions. So you should just be
> able to download the source of whatever application you are using (xpdf,
> kpdf, evince, pdftk) and comment out the code that checks for these
> restrictions.

Opening the proverbial can of worms, could Debian patch the upstream
xpdf in this way? More convenient for all of us. I think circumventing
DRM is only illegal in some countries.

- Jordi G. H.