Can I copy text not meant for copying?

On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:21:32 -0500, Paul wrote:

micky wrote:

It didn't work! This is the webpage:

http://www.tropicana.com/#/trop_pro...urePremium

I wanted to get the 3 lines of black text above the 5 bottles***.

I have two web browsers. One with Adobe Flash installed, and one without.
The "5 bottles" only appear in the Flash based version of the webpage.
The text in this case, is in a Flash image, and is not text "you can wipe over".

The non-Flash equipped browser, shows a quite different page. I was
able to copy this text from the non-Flash page. The page is
entirely different, with different text. I got this via copy/paste
of the non-Flash page (with anything needing Unicode, removed).

Wow, I got a techical answer from you, and the text I wanted too!! I
don't suppose I can call you every time I wante do copy text. No,
probably not.

"We're committed to using the best fruit to give you the great tasting juices
you love and the nutrition your body needs. Each 59oz container of Tropicana
Pure Premium has 16 fresh-picked oranges squeezed into it and an 8oz glass
gives you 100% vitamin C to help you maintain a healthy immune system."

I have to check if Tropicana is one of those that can keep
fresh-picked squeezed oranges in a vat for months. Haven't had time.
I guess that would mean they are picket when they're fresh, not that
they're sold when they are.

The claim of 100% vitamin C, I guess that means your glass is filled to the
rim with dried Ascorbic Acid crystals :-) Linus Pauling would be overjoyed.

He deserves it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascorbic_acid

On a pdf file, it lets me select all -- it's even in the drop down
menu --, but it doesn't let me copy it/paste it. And copy is not in
the drop down menu. It will take me a while to find the url for this
file from a stock broker, because now I'm working with a downloaded
copy. I plan to post again.

When you have a PDF to play with, post the URL, so we can try our
own bags of tricks :-) I haven't tried "copy busting" in a while.

Okay.

Here it is:. I found this on the web under a shorter, more sensible
name, but this is the same:
http://fa.morganstanleyindividual.c...92e0b3.pdf

When you download this, it has an entry in the Edit drop-down liast
for Select All, but the entries for Copy and Cut are greyed out, and
cntl-C doesn't work either.

Paul

On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:10:46 -0500, micky
wrote:

Here it is:. I found this on the web under a shorter, more sensible
name, but this is the same:
http://fa.morganstanleyindividual.c...92e0b3.pdf

When you download this, it has an entry in the Edit drop-down liast
for Select All, but the entries for Copy and Cut are greyed out, and
cntl-C doesn't work either.

If you use the free Foxit Reader (which I think is the best pdf
reader) instead of Adobe Reader, it's easy to copy and paste from a
pdf document.
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

| >
http://fa.morganstanleyindividual.c...92e0b3.pdf
| >
| > When you download this, it has an entry in the Edit drop-down liast
| > for Select All, but the entries for Copy and Cut are greyed out, and
| > cntl-C doesn't work either.
|
|
| If you use the free Foxit Reader (which I think is the best pdf
| reader) instead of Adobe Reader, it's easy to copy and paste from a
| pdf document.

But not that document. The idea was to find a way
to copy from restricted PDFs. Foxit, like most (all?)
free PDF software, will not allow bypassing restrictions.

(Foxit is also bloated, commercial nagware with a
spyware installer and attempts to install junk during
program install. It's a matter of preference, of course,
but personally I used to use Foxit and now prefer
Sumatra. Though I don't have any fancy requirements

On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:35:37 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote:

| If you use the free Foxit Reader (which I think is the best pdf
| reader) instead of Adobe Reader, it's easy to copy and paste from a
| pdf document.

But not that document. The idea was to find a way
to copy from restricted PDFs. Foxit, like most (all?)
free PDF software, will not allow bypassing restrictions.

Ah, thanks. I had missed that that was what the issue was.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

On Mar 10, 2:52 pm, "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:35:37 -0500, "Mayayana"

wrote:
> | If you use the free Foxit Reader (which I think is the best pdf
> | reader) instead of Adobe Reader, it's easy to copy and paste from a
> | pdf document.

>   But not that document. The idea was to find a way
> to copy from restricted PDFs. Foxit, like most (all?)
> free PDF software, will not allow bypassing restrictions.

Ah, thanks. I had missed that that was what the issue was.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

as long as not illegal, or such, I use
<http://freemypdf.com/>
they even convert from whiz bang 500kB files down to 300kB files that
open on Win98 using Adobe 5! The only thing that I could see added
when I opened with Foxit was an index along the left hand side, but
not much use when the document is only 2 pages to begin with!