09-07-2007, 09:07 PM | #1 |
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need help with drm pdf for iliad or sony prs
Help! I am reasonably new to this, I just last week joined this group and hacked my sony prs to get the clock and smaller font. I also use an Iliad for work. Today I bought a pdf from ebook.com for work. It apparently is drm. It needs this adobe reader thing and I don't know how to transfer it to my iliad or sony. Can anyone help^ Can I hack the book I bought somehow and turn it into a sony lrf
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09-08-2007, 05:38 AM | #2 | |
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"You can't" eBooks.com seems to want to completely control the content. So you probably have a PDF that will only be viewable in Acrobat Reader. |
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09-08-2007, 06:06 AM | #3 |
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09-08-2007, 07:55 AM | #4 | |
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09-08-2007, 04:17 PM | #5 |
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DRM pdf is tricky especially if it's the encryption one (there is a milder version that restricts printing, copying of text to clipboard and similar stuff - this one is easily bypassed with Linux tools). Only reliable solution is to snag (copy your pdf screen as image file) and ocr. People reported various hacks by fiddling with a binary editor and changing this or that in the binary file, but nothing consistent...
Regarding pdf as a format, I hate it too for ebooks, though it's quite useful for documents, especially if you have filling rights in the document (presuming you do not have full Acrobat); unfortunately right now it beats all other ebook preferences in downloads, polls, you name it, it by a lot; that tells also something about ebooks and how they are used... |
09-08-2007, 06:14 PM | #6 |
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Yeah, poorly.
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09-08-2007, 11:48 PM | #7 |
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09-11-2007, 10:15 PM | #8 |
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Thanks everyone
You are all correct. The reason I did not go to Connect is that I live in Canada and so they won't let me purchase books. Currently only for those in the US. I got my reader from in New York when I was there. Oh well, I am reading the book in this medium I have not used in years - paper! Ughhhh!!!!
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09-13-2007, 11:11 AM | #9 |
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If I don't intend to print it, I don't want PDF. I think it's almost useless as a reading format. 99% of everything I've seen won't fit one page to a screen and stay legible. This is really annoying with multicolumn layouts which require that jog up to get the top of the next column. Hates it we do.
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