Thread: Elipsa New Kobo (N604) [Elipsa - ed.]
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Old 07-08-2021, 09:11 PM   #619
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Originally Posted by Obscured View Post
The Elipsa officially states that it will not allow annotations with PDFs that have drm protection. I can certainly verify that, in fact I have been unable to annotate etc any PDFs. I have a variety of academic PDFs - freely available online - that are also not editable. I assume they are not DRMed but wouldn't know how to tell. I tried the Calibre plugin: "Apprentice Alf's DRM Removal Tool", but that didn't remove any DRM. It doesn't seem to have an option to work on an unspecified (non-Adobe) pdf.
I bought the Elipsa especially to use with PDFs and find this limitation very frustrating. Any help would be appreciated.
Check the security settings of the PDFs. One of them is for "Commenting". I think if that is not allowed, then the Elipsa will not allow annotations. Looking at my PDFs, I have one with this set to "Not allowed" and it does not allow adding comments in Acrobat Reader. I don't know if the DRM removal tools change this, or if there is an easy way to do it.

The DRM removal plugins should just remove any DRM from the formats they support when the book is added to calibre. I've seen some mention that the latest version can happen later. But, I haven't experimented to see. And, as I mentioned, I don't know if it touches the security settings.
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