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Originally Posted by redhairgal
Has any progress been made with the encryption tied to the hardware (this was prior to Adobe creating individual user accounts). I have a very old and valuable PDf that's tied to a very old hard drive that's clacking.....
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You might copy the complete harddisk as an image to your new harddisk (for instance with the dd Linux command or DriveImage cloner). Also you might read out the harddisk serial number (use a Windows tool), keep your current hardware and decide later how to proceed.
By the way with Adobe 7 existed a method (a security glitch) to save a crypted pdf. You loose all metadata (like Toc Links etc.) but you might give it a try.
You can also use the open source tool Bookshooter. It automatically grabs a selected screenzone, makes a screenshot and press to the next page.