Print protected pdf

I’ve downloaded a pdf that has some protection. It was 94 pages length and I had to read it.

What? 94 pages to be read on a screen? It will make my eyes like two fog lamps! Yes I know that if I red it on the screen I got less pollution but I can’t read long papers on the screen.

Now in order to print it (or even only some pages) you need the ghostscript.

If you are on a *nix system things are easier ’cause surely there is a packaged version of the scripts.

Instead if you are running windows, surely there’s a porting for windows but I’ve used the one provided with cygwin. So install cygwin with the ghostscript package (choose it by the installer).

Now convert the pdf to a postscript file and the the postscript file to a pdf. Open the new pdf with Acrobat Reader and that’s all

~$ pdf2ps protected.pdf unprotected.ps
~$ ps2pdf unprotected.ps unprotected.pdf

You’ll get a pdf with less resolution that is hard to read on the screen but that print well.

Neverwinter Nights screenshots

For those like me that are (or were) addicted by Neverwiner Nights it’s possible to take screen shots of the game just pressing the print screen button. It will be created a file with sequential name in the installation directory of the game.