Re: Question for Institutional Repository Folks

From: Matthew Sherman <matt.r.sherman_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:50:24 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Hm, the lock is tricky, when I try to print to PDF or XPS it scrambles the
text.  I will have look into how to use mupdf or the cover page idea if I
can't get a clean copy from the professor.  Thanks folks.


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Christian Pietsch <
chr.pietsch+web4lib_at_googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> if you are certain that a PDF file was encumbered with DRM
> restrictions by mistake, then you can easily remove DRM using a tool
> from the free MuPDF software which is available for all major
> operating systems including Windows: http://www.mupdf.com/
>
> If you have the current version, the command line goes like this:
> mutool clean old.pdf new.pdf
>
> Older versions of MyPDF included a different executable for this:
> pdfclean old.pdf new.pdf
>
> As for editing PDF files ... this is not what they are intended for,
> but it is possible with tools like PDFedit <http://pdfedit.cz>, Gimp,
> Inkscape or Scribus.
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 01:13:24PM -0400, Matthew Sherman wrote:
> > Can anyone give me some advice in how I can edit this to add the
> > required note to the top of the PDF?  Any advice is welcome.
>
> --
>   Christian Pietsch
>   http://purl.org/net/pietsch
>
Received on Tue Oct 29 2013 - 08:51:27 EDT