Samuel Audet saudet
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Getting around Adobe's document protection schemes
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| ############ Adobe badness ############# | |
| # In your operating system, create a postscript printer whose address is 127.0.0.1 | |
| # Fake a postscript printer using netcat | |
| $ nc -l 127.0.0.1 9100 > printout.ps | |
| # Print your pdf using Adobe Reader to the postscript printer on 127.0.0.1 | |
| # Netcat will diligently dump the printout to printout.ps as a postscript file |