[Gambas-user] tBeginners Guide To Gambas by JW Rittinghouse

[Rob Kudla]

On Wed January 25 2006 15:07, Clarke Pelz wrote:
> going.  The pdf file doesn't allow printing though, so
> studying it will be a headache.

While I support John's endeavor to write a Gambas book, and look 
forward to buying it when it's published, I don't support DRM in 
any form.  I encourage you to look into Ghostscript for printing 
encrypted PDF files; google Ghostscript encrypted PDF and you 
should be all set.  You can also use this fairly short Perl 
script:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/pdfdecrypt.pl

Since John has licensed his book under the OpenContent license 
(it says so on every single page of the e-book), it appears to 
my never-took-a-law-class eyes to be perfectly within your 
rights to decrypt and print whatever you like.  PDF printing 
restrictions are kind of risible anyway, when the price of paper 
and ink to print an e-book locally makes buying the actual book 
seem cheap in comparison.

Rob