Acrobat prints as a graphic image so the data in a prn file would not be of
any use. Security and inability to copy a document easily is the reason
many companies use the format for their secure documents.  The only
semi-successful way that I have seen to "copy" a protected PDF document is
through an OCR program.  There used to be a program called Kleptomania that
was somewhat successful in capturing character data presented on the screen
and then placing the ASCII characters on the clipboard. You can see it at
http://www.structurise.com/kleptomania/  . It's a bit pricey at $29.95 but
seems to generally work for common fonts. You do lose a lot of formatting
though, and it has to be done page by page. You have to really want to copy
doing it this way. In a bind I have used just a Alt - print screen and then
paste as image into an OCR program ( such as OmniPage Pro).

The problem is that Adobe*did* design the program to prevent copying so
they have already thought of the easy ways.

Good luck.

Doug


------------- At 8/14/00 06:30 PM, Harvey Segal wrote:

The "Text select"  button is dimmed out (i.e you cannot
select it) and in fact the Document info/security screen
shows that "selecting text and graphics is not
allowed",  which  indicates that the author specifically
does not allow copy.

So back to my  other idea. Is there a way of accessing
a 'prn' type file ?

-------------  Doug Simmons then wrote:

It can be protected from copy but most likely you are not in the
"Text Select" mode in Acrobat Reader. It is not set on by default.

-------------- At 8/13/00 04:16 AM, Harvey Segal wrote:

I would like to copy text from an e-book written in
Adobe Acrobat format. I am unable to 'select' the
text - I assume that an option has been deliberately
set in creating the book to prevent this.

So my next idea has been to use the print option
and to print to a file. The file type by default is 'pm' .
Can anyone explain how  I can access such a file ?

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