[Ulrich Kinbote]

I want to copy the text from this on-line PDF version of The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka.

> http://www.horrormasters.com/Text/a1...pparatus%22%22

For some reason, it's impossible.

Any ideas?

[Big Mac]

Copying text in PDFs can be disabled.

[Ulrich Kinbote]

Originally Posted by Big Mac

Copying text in PDFs can be disabled.

I registered at the site (as requested) but wasn't given the PDF password (as promised).

Anyway around the password?

[abe]

Download the linked file then open the PDF and use the text tool to highlight the part you want to copy like normal.

Worked fine for me.

[Ulrich Kinbote]

Originally Posted by abe

Download the linked file then open the PDF and use the text tool to highlight the part you want to copy like normal.

Worked fine for me.

Are you sure you copying/pasting and not just selecting? When I try and copy the text from the PDF (control/c) I get this message:

[abe]

Originally Posted by Ulrich Kinbote

Are you sure you copying/pasting and not just selecting? When I try and copy the text from the PDF (control/c) I get this message:

[URL=http://imageshack.us]

Ooops. Nope. Spoke too soon.

When I tried HIGHLIGHTING the text I had no problems. Usually when I've tried to copy something it just won't highlight. Because this WOULD highlight, I thought I was home free til I went back and tried it all the way through and ran into the wall.

No go.

Terribly sorry.

[qnxde]

http://purrrr.net/tmp/text.html

Select all, then drag and dropped to desktop as a clipping, then into TextEdit and saved as .html

Edit: Check out the messages in it:

Blah blah blah blah blah and whoever stole this story didn't even bother to check this.�

�To the reader: this is posted so that you'll know that someone has stolen this story from another source.�



teehee

[Ulrich Kinbote]

Originally Posted by qnxde

http://purrrr.net/tmp/text.html

Select all, then drag and dropped to desktop as a clipping, then into TextEdit and saved as .html

Awesome! Thanks! Kudos on getting round the password!

Edit: Funny, I tried dropping it to desktop and didn't work for me. Oh well.

> To the reader: this is posted so that you'll know that someone has stolen this story from another source.<

I knew it was still under copyright. But I own the book too, so it's not (really) stealing.

[qnxde]

Hmm, I was using leopard at the time, wonder if that made a difference. Did you click then hold for a second, then drag?

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by Ulrich Kinbote

I knew it was still under copyright. But I own the book too, so it's not (really) stealing.

Franz Kafka is dead since more than 70 years. Nothing he wrote is still under copyright.

[Ulrich Kinbote]

Originally Posted by qnxde

Hmm, I was using leopard at the time, wonder if that made a difference. Did you click then hold for a second, then drag?

Whenever I clicked on the selected text (and I tried about ten times) it automatically de-selected. I'm using Tiger OSX 10.4.7.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Franz Kafka is dead since more than 70 years. Nothing he wrote is still under copyright.

Doesn't that depend on the copyright laws of individual countries?
AFAIK, they vary in their length of time.

-t

[Ulrich Kinbote]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Franz Kafka is dead since more than 70 years. Nothing he wrote is still under copyright.

English translations are. Kafka wrote in German. Why am I telling you this? Anyway:

You will not find a complete translation of Kafka's work on this site, nor anywhere on the net. There is a simple reason for that. Just like original texts, translations are protected by copyright and cannot be distributed on the net without the translator's permission.

The Kafka Project

[Mastrap]

I forgot what it is called, and I am too lazy to look it up, but there's a bit of software out there that allows you to print protected pdf files. And one you can do that you can simply write a new, non protected, pdf and copy that.

[OreoCookie]

Originally Posted by Ulrich Kinbote

I registered at the site (as requested) but wasn't given the PDF password (as promised).

Anyway around the password?

Yes. Install Ghostscript, if necessary. Launch the Terminal and do a pdf2ps [file in question] and a ps2pdf [file in question.ps]. It worked for me a few times.

[moonmonkey]

Originally Posted by qnxde

Hmm, I was using leopard at the time

Naughty.

[Ulrich Kinbote]

Originally Posted by qnxde

Hmm, I was using leopard at the time

Wait a second...

Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" is the upcoming sixth major release of the Mac OS X operating system for Apple's Macintosh computer ... Steve Jobs announced Apple's intention to release the operating system in Spring 2007.

[wallinbl]

Originally Posted by Ulrich Kinbote

I want to copy the text from this on-line PDF version of The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka.

Try it from here: In the Penal Colony - Wikisource

Originally Posted by Ulrich Kinbote

Wait a second...

He's either breaking his NDA by talking about Leopard in public (even saying what does and does not work is breaking the NDA), or he's breaking the law by pirating it.

[brassplayersrock²]

to the op. thought of this when Pages decided to crash whenever I wanted to print out my final art history paper.

do a self selection grab, apple shift 4, go over the parts that you with your mouse, then let go, and on the desktop a png file appears, open it and print

Alex

you can also highlight the parts that you want more in the png file and copy it, and paste it onto whatever your doing, but ya can't edit it, unless you put it into PS or similar and white out whatever you want and add text

[MaxPower2k3]

I assume he wants the actual text and not just a printable PNG. Plus, printing out a screen-resolution PNG of text won't look very good. Not to mention font matching and issues like that. But it seems like wallinbl has solved the problem, anyway.

[agentz]

Originally Posted by hayesk

He's either breaking his NDA by talking about Leopard in public (even saying what does and does not work is breaking the NDA), or he's breaking the law by pirating it.

Or he simply got his cats confused

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by agentz

Or he simply got his cats confused

Bingo. Mystery solved.

-t