Advice from an anonymous author on how to re-enable printing in Ghostscript. ================================================================ Last night I was thinking about PDF again and I thought it would be good to check in on the state of PDF security. The last time I worked with PDF, the security algorithm was not available. PDF annoys me because it's touted as a replacement for the much-more-powerful and much-more-easily-used PostScript language. I always thought I'd build some tools to turn PDF into PostScript and get rid of that silly "no print" option in PDF. So...I whipped up a PDF to PS utility this morning. It's basically GhostScript plus an Australian PDF security module (with a trivial change) with a CGI wrapper. It's rough, but quite usable now. gs change Yes, it really is trivial to take security checking out of pdf_sec.ps. Just change the line Trailer /Encrypt oget /P oget 4 and 0 eq #? and to something like Trailer /Encrypt oget /P oget 4 and 9 eq #? and This will effectively eliminate checking the "print disable" security bit.