Adobe eBooks

[Derek Broughton]

Travis Smith wrote:

> I know you can password protect pdfs but haven't had any experience with
> any copy-protected pdfs. Do you have an example/link?
> 
> On Jan 23, 2008 11:27 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>
>> > Does anybody have experience with these copy-protected PDFs?
>> >
>> > Can they be read in Linux?
>>
>> Sure, no problem... :-)
>>
>> (one of these days I'll learn patience)

No, I don't.  I wanted a copy of Martin Aspeli's "Professional Plone
Development", and PackT sells it as an eBook.  I had misunderstood what
they were saying - it is not copy-protected, you can copy it all you want,
but it is password-protected and you can't cut/copy from the PDF (I'm not
sure quite how that works, because you can _search_ for text, so it's not
just graphics).  Anyway, kpdf works just as well as the Adobe Reader on
Windows, and kpdf even stores the password in my kwallet.
-- 
derek