I am officially an old person, as I have subscribed to a magazine. It’s niche, but it’s been around a long time, and having enjoyed a lot of issues in my childhood that were given to me for free, I feel I should give back.
I’m wondering if there are precautions I should take. Can any sort of copy protection be put into PDFs that I should strip out? If I share them as a torrent, should I be worried that the publisher can tell where they came from?
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cough, cough
Whoops! It appears as though I’ve unintentionally dropped a link regarding meta data removal from PDF’s…
https://pdf.wondershare.com/how-to/remove-metadata-from-pdf.html
I suppose I’ll just leave it there for any interested parties to do with it what they will. 😉
You fucking legend, you
Stirling PDF has a meta data removal tool included as well as a heap of other useful features. Can be self hosted.
I think if you print the PDF to another PDF, it’ll lose any copy protection or potential identifiers.
Can anyone confirm this? Would make the whole process very macroable
I imagine this destroys hyperlinks. Maybe machine-readable text too
