Leonard,

The file is in Japanese and is the technical specifications on storage
barrels that my client wishes to understand before ordering the product
from Japan. Unfortunately despite repeated requests to the barrel
manufacturer, the encrypted PDF is all that they have sent. My client
wants to translate the document to fully understand the information and
my translators would like to be able to print out the material to work
from. Additionally, if can I can copy the data out of the file I can do
an auto character count in order to give my client a price on the
translation rather than trying to count characters on the screen.

There is nothing nefarious with this project.

Andy



Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

> At 10:30 AM 7/8/2003 -0700, Andrew Taylor wrote:
>
>> We have received an Acrobat file that has security settings that will
>> not allow printing, annotations, or selecting text.
>
>
> OK...
>
>
>> We are being asked to provide an estimate on translating the text in
>> the PDF and normally we would select all the text in the PDF, copy it
>> and paste it into MS Word to count words. However, in this case we
>> can not do that, in fact we can't even print it out to look at the
>> entire document.
>
>
> Yeah, that would indeed be a problem.
>
>
>> Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can get the file to at
>> least print out? The client does not have the password to access the
>> file either.
>
>
> If the client doesn't have the password, are you sure they
> even have the rights to have this document translated? And if they
> do have the rights, why don't they have the password.
>
> Forgetting the technical issues for a moment, I'd go back to
> the client to get more info about this situation to protect yourself...
>
>
> Leonard
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