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Originally Posted by Shaggy
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I remove the lock on the PDF and use Acrobat's Touchup Object tool to remove the annoying line of text. I have to go page-by-page to remove it, but it's only a couple of minutes for a very large book.
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I'm sure if someone really wanted to, they could figure out a way to automate all of that. |
Certainly. I don't speak code, and I'm quick enough with the manual process for my own use, or I'd've figured out how to automate it. Even without scripts, I can think of a few ways I could make it go much faster, with videogame software that automates a collection of keystrokes.
It's a form of security-through-obscurity; most people don't know that those features can be removed, and if they do, they don't know how. And because placement and exact method of establishing the watermarks is different for each publisher, it's probably impossible to create a single script like MobideDRM that would work on all watermarked PDFs.
Because of that, if such books do get released into the torrents/filesharing sites, they're likely to be assumed to be insider releases instead of consumer edited releases.