Vel's SMAX Guide. . . A Newbies View

[bondetamp]

Originally posted by MariOne
Alas for you, Vel/booksurge are not amateur, and they applied some Acrobat Protection setting to the PDF, which disabled the Copy command on it

I'd argue that it is horribly amateurish to copy protect a .pdf in that way, since it doesn't stop pirates (it is no harder to distribute) and it makes life harder for legitime customers.

[MariOne]

Hmmm... oh, well...
at least you can't alter it

you can distribute the original, and it will retain all the cover credits and copyright notices in it.
You can't cut the text and reuse it anoymously in other contexts....

[Shard]

Originally posted by MariOne
Hmmm... oh, well...
at least you can't alter it

you can distribute the original, and it will retain all the cover credits and copyright notices in it.
You can't cut the text and reuse it anoymously in other contexts....

Well, if you were really desperate to do that, you could still type it out, or take screenshots and OCR it.

[MariOne]

Actually, I had only thought of printing it and scanning in order to OCR it.

I hadn't thought to directly OCR a screenshot...

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