Acrobat 5.0- undisabling printer

[Marzman]

Just wondering if there is any way of getting round the print function being disabled when you open a PDF file which is under copyright. I just want to print the thing because it’s a lot of pages and its a bit tiresome to read. Thanks

[david eaton]

If the document security is set to not allow printing, then without the password, there is no way of printing the document. I know, I tried, with a document I set restrictions on, and then forgot the password!
The only way of overcoming this would be to do a screen capture of every page, and print that as a graphic file. Not really practical for a long document.
Also consider that the restriction was set for a reason. If you approach the copyright holder, you may be able to get an unrestricted copy of the file.

[Marzman]

Thanks, I feared that might be the case. Oh-well, guess I'll just have to go blurry eyed starring at the monitor

[Paul Komski]

advanced pdf recovery might do the trick
http://www.elcomsoft.com/apdfpr.html

pdf to html using command prompt utility might work
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml/