Mick skrev: > I am trying to copy some text from a pdf file which has been > protected, most likely using Adobe on a MSWindows machine. When I > select some text, the new KDE4 pdf viewer (Okular) shows the 'copy > text' right click menu greyed out: > > "Copy forbidden by DRM". > > I can still copy the text as an image. > > Xpdf does not even allow me to copy it as an image after selection. > > I can't remember what the case was with KDE 3.5.10 and kpdf - either > way, is there an application or trick which would allow me to edit the > pdf file in question and add comments, or cut and paste its textual > content into a word file and edit it there? There's a lot of text > that I need to edit and would rather not have to retype it all ... >
I noticed that Okular has the option "Obey DRM restrictions" enabled by default. I do not know why this was changed. As far as I remember, in KPDF, it was a compile-time option that was disabled default, and if it was enabled at compile time, it would appear as a normal option (like in Okular now), but be disabled by default. Just try to turn it off.
