[ale] Still no flames... :-)

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 17:14 +0000, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> That *is* a very good question, but "It's supported on virtually every
> existing platform" is, to me, not a justification nor a good contrary point.
> 
> PDF seems to be a "half-open" format; up to a certain point, it seems to 
> be as open as you please.  However, Adobe seems to wall off some 
> functionality within their closed-source Linux product and also, in a 
> more general way, they seem to set some functionality out of reach of 
> arbitrarily-written apps that read/write PDF.  Somewhere way beyond that 
> wall - and correct me if i'm wrong, someone - is functionality that can 
> get you charged with a crime if you write code to implement it (i.e., 
> having to do with password-encoded content). 
> __

Didn't Adobe have that researcher arrested for giving a talk about the
security hole he found in the password protection stuff in Acrobat?

I know that a password protected pdf is viewable with xpdf with the
password. Print-locked documents seem to have "issues" with non-Adobe
readers.
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