I should probably get an automatic A in my first class with the University of Phoenix for successfully breaking Adobe’s DRM on my class eBook. Is it too much to ask that someone in the BSIT program might like to read the book that they’ve legitimately been given access to on something other than Adobe Acrobat in Windows XP?

Well, 3 days later and countless numbers of packages (well, maybe a dozen), and I finally found a way to patch Ghostscript so that it would convert a PostScript file back into an unencrypted PDF. Here’s the process:

Open the PDF in Adobe 6.01 with Windows (unlock it)
Print to a file using any PostScript printer
Using Linux now, run ps2pdf on the .ps file and viola!

Of course, without the patch, ps2pdf will just vomit all over the console and tell you that it isn’t allowed to convert an encrypted PostScript file. Too bad.

At least now I can read in peace.

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