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PDF Creator
On 11/29/2017 2:37 PM, harry newton wrote:
He who is Keith Nuttle said on Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:40:51 -0500: I always use the original web site for all my downloads when possible, OR Sourceforge.net I do too but I couldn't find the suggested older version of PDF Creator on the official web site. It was on Sourceforge in source code format only as far as I could tell. So I was pretty much stuck without a paddle. Did a Google and found these http://azure.download.pdfforge.org/p..._setup.exe1.7k http://olive.download.pdfforge.org/p...3_setup.exe211 http://blue.download.pdfforge.org/pd...3_setup.exe129 http://white.download.pdfforge.org/p...3_setup.exe273 I have saved the set up file so I was not sure where it was on Source Forge -- 2017: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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PDF Creator
He who is Keith Nuttle said on Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:00:13 -0500:
Did a Google and found these http://azure.download.pdfforge.org/p..._setup.exe1.7k http://olive.download.pdfforge.org/p...3_setup.exe211 http://blue.download.pdfforge.org/pd...3_setup.exe129 http://white.download.pdfforge.org/p...3_setup.exe273 Hi Keith, I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me since I already installed from here which I said earlier: http://jcdiaz.net/jcd-downloads/PDFCreator%201.7.1.htm Are those sites *better* than the one I found with Google? |
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PDF Creator
On 11/29/2017 4:15 PM, harry newton wrote:
He who is Keith Nuttle said on Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:00:13 -0500: Did a Google and found these http://azure.download.pdfforge.org/p..._setup.exe1.7k http://olive.download.pdfforge.org/p...3_setup.exe211 http://blue.download.pdfforge.org/pd...3_setup.exe129 http://white.download.pdfforge.org/p...3_setup.exe273 Hi Keith, I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me since I already installed from here which I said earlier: http://jcdiaz.net/jcd-downloads/PDFCreator%201.7.1.htm Are those sites *better* than the one I found with Google? Sorry I read what you wrote as not finding PDFcreator -- 2017: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?
He who is Paul said on Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:07:48 -0500:
Once you've edited the PostScript, you can distill it with GhostScript. I agree with Paul that the whole point of printing to PostScript is to be able to remove the privacy data. Here are my steps so far. 1. Open text file 2. Press the print button in the text-editor gui 3. The "Print" gui comes up with "PDFCreator" selected. http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/11/29/print1.jpg 4. Press the "Print to file" checkbox. http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/11/29/print2.jpg 5. Press the "Print" button. 6. That saves the file as "foo.prn" which is a PostScript file. http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/11/29/print3.jpg 7. I can manually edit that PostScript file to remove my name. http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/11/29/print4.jpg 8. I save that as foo.ps and doubleclick on the file. 9. Irfanview comes up saying GhostScript isn't installed So my next step is to install GhostScript. Paul - does this sound like the plan you had in mind? |
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What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?
harry newton wrote:
He who is Paul said on Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:07:48 -0500: Once you've edited the PostScript, you can distill it with GhostScript. I agree with Paul that the whole point of printing to PostScript is to be able to remove the privacy data. Here are my steps so far. 1. Open text file 2. Press the print button in the text-editor gui 3. The "Print" gui comes up with "PDFCreator" selected. http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/11/29/print1.jpg 4. Press the "Print to file" checkbox. http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/11/29/print2.jpg 5. Press the "Print" button. 6. That saves the file as "foo.prn" which is a PostScript file. http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/11/29/print3.jpg 7. I can manually edit that PostScript file to remove my name. http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/11/29/print4.jpg 8. I save that as foo.ps and doubleclick on the file. 9. Irfanview comes up saying GhostScript isn't installed So my next step is to install GhostScript. Paul - does this sound like the plan you had in mind? Well, you can test with any Distiller you have on hand at first. Tracking down GhostScript shouldn't be too hard. The paid version of Acrobat apparently has a sanitize option, for removing metadata, but I'm trying to do this for free. Paul |
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What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?
Who are you trying to hide it from? Can you just send them out
of the room while you print? |
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What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?
On 30/11/2017 11:34, Lucifer Morningstar wrote:
Who are you trying to hide it from? Can you just send them out of the room while you print? He has got some images of naked small boys and you can't expect him to distribute his pdf files with his name embossed on it. Harry Newton aka Lionel Muller, Blake Snyper, Balco, etc etc is a known Paedophile who is spending all his time trying to hide his footprints on the net. His questions are about changing IP address, or using proxy servers that doesn't require registrations or using newsgroups like AIOE where the Italian mafia member called Paulo couldn't care less what the user does on his servers. In fact some people affiliated to Harry Newton's paedophile ring are also know to impersonate users of this newsgroup. -- With over 500 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?
He who is Mayayana said on Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:48:57 -0500:
I'm using v. 2.5.24, which has no ads. There is a button in the top corner to download some other program the company makes, but it's just a small ad, out of the way, for their own product. And there's a "search bar" that provides links to search engines. I just delete all those and disable online search in the settings. Thanks Mayayana for that advice. I put it in my installation log. I'll stick with the version I have for now as almost nothing is ever gained most of the time by updating freeware that was once pretty good. So I'll stick with 1.7.1 unless someone knows that it handles PostScript better. |
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What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?
"Paul" wrote
| The paid version of Acrobat apparently has a sanitize | option, for removing metadata, but I'm trying to do this | for free. | It should be easy enough with a free program or a script. The file format is public. A quick look through one of my PDFs written with Libre Office Writer shows this: /CreatorFEFF005700720069007400650072 ../ProducerFEFF004C0069006200720065004F0 066006600690063006500200035002E0031 ../CreationDate(D:20170725212218-04'00') Pretty much self-explanatory, though it seems odd that they see fit to complicate it unnecessarily. It's not really obfuscated. Just unnecessarily complicated. Those are numeric hex representations of unicode strings: FEFF - unicode file market 004C - L 0069 - i 0062 - b 0072 - r 0065 - e And so on. It looks like what you're interested in is the Info metadata dictionary. The data is enclosed by and . In between will be things like "/Creator", "/Producer", "/CreationDate". None of those have to be there, and there seems to be no unique marker for the overall group. If it were me I'd write code to search for those strings, then look back for and forward for . Then in that span I'd look for any values I want to change, like /Author. Sometimes those are stored as plain ASCII/ANSI text, surrounded by (). Sometimes they're the mess I detailed above, surrounded by . Either way, they could just be zeroed out. It's possible there are some variations on the theme. That shouldn't be hard to figure out. I just tried zeroing out the fields in HxD hex editor and that ended up leaving the metada functional while making the prodducer and application fields blank. For anyone interested, the format is documented here (free PDF download): http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html On the other hand, PDF is very complex. It's probably not such a good idea to use that format if one doesn't want to leave a trail. There may be unique IDs or other identifying data stored. Like MS Office docs, it's designed to support corporate ownership, not privacy. But if one just wants a PDF without one's name in it, it looks like just about anything but Adobe Acrobat will do that by default. With Harry Newton everything somehow becomes a massively complex project, but you...? I don't understand why you're going to such lengths to make PDFs. Why don't you just use PSF XChange Viewer, Libre Office, or some other free, common option? |
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What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?
Mayayana wrote:
"Paul" wrote | The paid version of Acrobat apparently has a sanitize | option, for removing metadata, but I'm trying to do this | for free. | It should be easy enough with a free program or a script. The file format is public. A quick look through one of my PDFs written with Libre Office Writer shows this: /CreatorFEFF005700720069007400650072 ./ProducerFEFF004C0069006200720065004F0 066006600690063006500200035002E0031 ./CreationDate(D:20170725212218-04'00') Pretty much self-explanatory, though it seems odd that they see fit to complicate it unnecessarily. It's not really obfuscated. Just unnecessarily complicated. Those are numeric hex representations of unicode strings: FEFF - unicode file market 004C - L 0069 - i 0062 - b 0072 - r 0065 - e And so on. It looks like what you're interested in is the Info metadata dictionary. The data is enclosed by and . In between will be things like "/Creator", "/Producer", "/CreationDate". None of those have to be there, and there seems to be no unique marker for the overall group. If it were me I'd write code to search for those strings, then look back for and forward for . Then in that span I'd look for any values I want to change, like /Author. Sometimes those are stored as plain ASCII/ANSI text, surrounded by (). Sometimes they're the mess I detailed above, surrounded by . Either way, they could just be zeroed out. It's possible there are some variations on the theme. That shouldn't be hard to figure out. I just tried zeroing out the fields in HxD hex editor and that ended up leaving the metada functional while making the prodducer and application fields blank. For anyone interested, the format is documented here (free PDF download): http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html On the other hand, PDF is very complex. It's probably not such a good idea to use that format if one doesn't want to leave a trail. There may be unique IDs or other identifying data stored. Like MS Office docs, it's designed to support corporate ownership, not privacy. But if one just wants a PDF without one's name in it, it looks like just about anything but Adobe Acrobat will do that by default. With Harry Newton everything somehow becomes a massively complex project, but you...? I don't understand why you're going to such lengths to make PDFs. Why don't you just use PSF XChange Viewer, Libre Office, or some other free, common option? PostScript is mainly a text format, and should be easier to script to find the fields in question. PDF is a mixed format environment, and if you use a hex editor to deal with the variations (if there were some), then it might mean more manual work perhaps. Now, that being said, your point is a good one, and I slipped up by not spending 30 seconds to review an example in a hex editor. I spent most of my preliminary effort, on finding an example that has "all possible metadata" in it, to ensure a good job, rather than grabbing the first PDF on disk I could find and looking with the hex editor. It turns out there are two kinds of metadata in a PDF, and the second kind isn't likely to come out of the OPs environment. And as it turns out, the second kind is XML format anyway, and would be easy to spot. A small bit of PDF is readable (some object definitions), but just as easily you can be buried in a sea of binary in there. And not really know immediately, what that binary might represent (it could just be an image and be a large bitmap). Neither PostScript nor PDF is completely human readable. And the tools that promise to remove things like ASCI85 or BASE64 encoding (so the file can be more readable), aren't recursive and won't keep digging until everything is plaintext. So if you wanted a general tool to search for "oops my name is in this document", it would be just a bit difficult to guarantee that your name isn't there. Paul |
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What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?
He who is Good Guy said on Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:21:52 +0000:
He has got some images of naked small boys and you can't expect him to distribute his pdf files with his name embossed on it. This says so much about YOU, Goodguy, that it's scary how sick you are. |
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What's the easiest way to print PDFs on Windows 10 with privacy?
On 11/30/2017 2:32 PM, harry newton wrote:
He who is Good Guy said on Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:21:52 +0000: He has got some images of naked small boys and you can't expect him to distribute his pdf files with his name embossed on it. This says so much about YOU, Goodguy, that it's scary how sick you are. Also demented and retarded |
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