Cutting & pasting.
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Cutting & pasting.
Until recently, (about three weeks ago), I've been able to cut and paste from CAA Publications for use in our own Unit Documents.
We have Adobe 9 and Cute PDF and we fully subscribe to all the publcations which we want to copy into our own Unit procedures & publcations, so we're not exactly "stealing", or breaching copyright and I know that many units have done it for many years.
It was a very useful facility to have but the ability to use it seemes to have been withdrawn by the publisher (if they can do such a thing).
Ideas anyone?
We have Adobe 9 and Cute PDF and we fully subscribe to all the publcations which we want to copy into our own Unit procedures & publcations, so we're not exactly "stealing", or breaching copyright and I know that many units have done it for many years.
It was a very useful facility to have but the ability to use it seemes to have been withdrawn by the publisher (if they can do such a thing).
Ideas anyone?
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Yes, PDF can do that. PDFs can be set to "cuttable" or "locked" (I don't know the official words).
If you have Windows 7 (or maybe Vista - I dunno), you can take a screengrab and then run OCR on it. I've done that a few times.
If you have Windows 7 (or maybe Vista - I dunno), you can take a screengrab and then run OCR on it. I've done that a few times.
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From: Dublin, Ireland. (No, I just live here.)
A non-Adobe reader such as Foxit Reader might let you copy and paste. I remember that I could copy from a protected document in the Linux PDF reader (evince).
One thing that might work, which I haven't tried from Adobe Acrobat, is printing to a file. If you set up a dummy Generic/Text Only printer that has its output port set to FILE:, you can print to it, and it asks you for a text file to print to.
One thing that might work, which I haven't tried from Adobe Acrobat, is printing to a file. If you set up a dummy Generic/Text Only printer that has its output port set to FILE:, you can print to it, and it asks you for a text file to print to.
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If you have Windows Vista you can print the document using the XPS Document Writer which is a logical printer in control panel.
You can then double click on the file you created and it will open in Internet Explorer - which will allow you to copy from the document.
You can then double click on the file you created and it will open in Internet Explorer - which will allow you to copy from the document.
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Ring them up...
Ring up the section at the Belgrano that publish what you want and ask them if they meant to lock the pdf files. As 99% of their stuff is now online rather than on paper, i would guess that they just didn't notice.
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Belated thanks to all.
It was a problem at the publishers, someone had used dvine wisdom and decided that certain CAP technical doc's could be publically mauled whilst others couldn't.
It's my understanding that any of the doc's on the listed on the CAA website are accessible for C & P.
Ta once again.
It was a problem at the publishers, someone had used dvine wisdom and decided that certain CAP technical doc's could be publically mauled whilst others couldn't.
It's my understanding that any of the doc's on the listed on the CAA website are accessible for C & P.
Ta once again.
