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At 10:54 AM 3/18/2005, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">But I don't want poppler to
enforce these settings, that's a choice the application has to make.
</blockquote><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>No,
actually it is not.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>The PDF
Specification is very clear that in order for a PDF consumer to be
granted the necessary rights for use of Adobe copyrighted material - they
are required to respect the digital rights of a PDF. See Section
1.5 (Intellectual Property) of the PDF Reference
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<dd><font face="Courier New, Courier">Authors of software that accepts
input in the form of the Portable Document
<dd>Format must make reasonable efforts to ensure that the software they
create respects
<dd>the access permissions and permissions controls listed in Table 3.20
of
<dd>this specification, to the extent that they are used in any
particular document.<br>
<br><br></font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">
</dl> I know that kpdf recently went through a flamewar over this
very issue </blockquote><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>I wasn't
part of that war - but the issue is crystal clear and no debate is
required.<br><br>
<br>
Leonard<br>
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