Use Gmail to break PDF copy-restrictions
Apparently, Gmail’s built-in 'View as HTML' functionality, which allows you to view the content of PDF files (and other types of documents) as if they were classic webpages, works regardless of the files’ usage restrictions (i.e., the functionality doesn't respect Digital Rights Management).
Via Boingboing
UPDATE: Gmail has just terminated this functionality.
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For mac users, however, all they need to do is open the PDF in "color sync utility," then Save as another name...and that's it!
Comment by Mike — 5/5/2006 @ 04:29
I am a proud Gmail user. Never worrying about email size, incredibly fast reply (powered by AJAX, a technology often used by Google), Web Clips,
automatic forwarding, one button - click search, advanced filters, labels and not folders, message preview, automatic refresh, auto-save messages,as-good-as-yahoomail spam filters, not one executable to be sent or received, feeling of having a different technology? A definite recommendation for
anyone that reads more than one email per day.
Have you tried Gmail? If yes, what's your taste on it? Why do you love it/hate it?
Comment by Elliot — 12/25/2006 @ 16:25