[geeks] Adobe reader 6 and pdf that phones home

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 @ 08:24 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson said:

> I have adobe reader 6 as the default reader on my wife's PC. Due to font
> issues, I have to use it instead of adobe reader 7.
> 
> When I opened a pdf today, I received a "security warning" that the pdf
> file was trying to "phone home" with a URL. I had the choice of blocking
> or allowing the operation and remebering the action for that web site.
> 
> Note that pushing the file through pdf2ps and then ps2pdf produced a pdf
> file that did not "phone home.". It displayed much more slowly too.

pdf->ps->pdf usually sucks pretty bad.

You might try doing a "null" conversion with something like pdftk.  It's
written in Java and slow as hell, but it seems to work pretty good.

It's also compiled Java, so you don't need a JVM.

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