How to remove a .pdf's document restrictions?

Asked Nov 14 '10 at 09:46

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I need to remove some restrictions from a .pdf document:

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I can't zoom or use any other buttons. The toolbar just isn't available. I never saw a .pdf file like this one.

edited Aug 21 '11 at 07:21

Gareth

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asked Nov 14 '10 at 09:46

ChristianM

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You have two options:

with ghostscript:

gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=%stdout% -c .setpdfwrite -f locked.pdf > unlocked.pdf

with pdf2ps and ps2pdf (slower):
```
pdf2ps locked.pdf - | ps2pdf - unlocked.pdf
```
If the unlocked PDF contains error, try to decompose the commands (ps2pdf have sometimes problems with a streamed input):
```
pdf2ps locked.pdf unlocked.ps
ps2pdf unlocked.ps unlocked.pdf
```

edited Jul 25 '13 at 21:41

answered Jul 25 '13 at 21:32

Kyle_the_hacker

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