Adobe ADEPT DRM for PDF circumvented

[zerospinboson]

this works with penguin-bought ade books?

[joblack]

Originally Posted by zerospinboson

this works with penguin-bought ade books?

Most probably ...

[zerospinboson]

It's odd how penguin.co.uk offers an ePub version of a title while us.penguingroup offers ADE/MSLit/eReader versions, but not ePub. (Although apparently the US store only sells to people who reside in the USA, which I assume also means my CC has to have been issued there.)
Oh, well, maybe later then

[joblack]

Originally Posted by zerospinboson

It's odd how penguin.co.uk offers an ePub version of a title while us.penguingroup offers ADE/MSLit/eReader versions, but not ePub. (Although apparently the US store only sells to people who reside in the USA, which I assume also means my CC has to have been issued there.)
Oh, well, maybe later then

I doubt that they check the address. Use your credit card with a fake address and it should work (it did with the Sony US Shop).

[GatorDeb]

I think what I'm going to do is just wait until the DX comes out and use liberated PDFs on it. I'd guess the PDFs are not images so they'll reflow on the DX, right?

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by GatorDeb

I'd guess the PDFs are not images so they'll reflow on the DX, right?

The KDX does not have reflow for PDFs. It only has two PDF "sizes" a) portrait with margins trimmed, and b) landscape with continuous pages and margins trimmed. It would be nice if it also had a 2-column mode, or some other quarter page zoom, but the argument for the KDX setup is that the landscape mode is essentially full size for letter/A4 documents.

If you have DRM-free PDFs, they can be reflowed off-line and made into MOBIs for the KDX. What reflowing within Adobe Digital Editions get you, though, is the ability to switch between reflow and standard page views. The KDX has ADE, but it does not implement its reflow capability.

[GatorDeb]

Thanks for the answer! I'll keep the 505 then and go to the 700 or its next iteration when it dies. The reflow is very readable (although it does look better on the PC). I have a warranty until December 2010 that includes me breaking it.

[godelocs]

Can anyone tell me how to reformat my pdf books to imp format for my ebw 1150.

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by godelocs

Can anyone tell me how to reformat my pdf books to imp format for my ebw 1150.

For any non-DRM'ed or unprotected .pdf, you can use PDFRead to produce a EBW1150 .imp (also known as imp2 format).

For ADEPT DRM'ed .pdf, well I just don't use them.

But from what I see, you need python installed, run the key .py and then the inept drm .py. You'll get a non-DRM'ed .pdf, which can then be used with PDFRead or converted to .html using calibre or Mobipocket Creator.

Hope this helps.

[jackky]

Hi,
I get the following error with ineptkey:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Documents and Settings\xx\MyDocuments\My Digital Editions\ineptkey.pyw", line 198, in main
retrieve_key(keypath)
File "C:\Documents and Settings\xx\MyDocuments\My Digital Editions\ineptkey.pyw", line 140, in retrieve_key
vendor = cpuid0()
File "C:\Documents and Settings\xx\MyDocuments\My Digital Editions\ineptkey.pyw", line 103, in cpuid0
cpuid0__(buffer)
WindowsError: exception: access violation writing 0x00C14B58

Pls help me. TIA..

[trekker99]

I am also having trouble with some pdfs bought from simon & schuster. I also get the "There was a problem reading this document (14)." and the page where this error occurs is blank. The rest of the pdf (before and after) seems intact. I have tried both the v2 and v3 of ineptpdf from pastebin and both have the same problem. I activated my DE when 1.5 was released. I am using v3 of ineptkey.

joblack: You were asking about the size of adeptkey.der... Not sure if it means anything but mine is 606 bytes rather than the 607 or 608 that has been talked about. I have used this key to liberate some epubs I bought and they seem to work fine.

Anyone with any ideas? Will v6 of ineptpdf fix this? If someone can PM me the link to it, I can give it a shot. Thanks.

[joblack]

Originally Posted by joblack

The inept script has still some bugs in it.

Most of the pdfs work without a problem but I've found some inconsistencies (mainly in the dump method). In rare occasions (at the moment because these kind of pdfs (>= pdf 1.5 and xref stream directory present) are very rare) it doesn't create a working pdf.

It also doesn't work if you haven't got an empty or no trailer (that occures if you have the trailer information in a xref stream directory) - then you will get a 'nor root found'-error.

If you get these circumstances they are known but these adjustments aren't worked out yet.

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[trekker99]

Joblack, the pdfs I am having trouble with are a mixture of pdf 1.4 and pdf 1.5, so perhaps your latest scripts can resolve the problems I have with pdf 1.4 files.

It seems that from what I have seen so far, the errors come from pages with a mixture of text and images. This might result in a number of pages after that page becoming undisplayable.

[joblack]

Originally Posted by trekker99

Joblack, the pdfs I am having trouble with are a mixture of pdf 1.4 and pdf 1.5, so perhaps your latest scripts can resolve the problems I have with pdf 1.4 files.

It seems that from what I have seen so far, the errors come from pages with a mixture of text and images. This might result in a number of pages after that page becoming undisplayable.

It depends what version is written at the beginning of the file. If there is something like %pdf-1.5 it`s version 1.5.

1.4 or earlier should work with the actual script.

[BookishMom]

I was able to figure out how to do the DRMd MobiPocket books scripts (by Igor), but these have me stumped. Can someone send me a link to the latest scripts and maybe a "dummies" guide on how to run them?