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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Whiskers" data-source="post: 768705" data-attributes="member: 6941">JM - Very interesting! I noticed the discussion thread didn't resolve the question for Game Mechanics, but it seemed to end with only a copyright issue, not piracy. Being a novice with Adobe, a few questions:1. I was always under the impression that pdf's are used because they are supposed to be hard to change - am I way off base here? I know that our legal department at work has authorization to send pdf's of signed documents to various government entities, in place of the real thing (the assumption being the pdf is the same as the original). Sounds like eveyone here is saying this isn't true at all.2. Along the lines of 1. above, is it really that easy for anyone to strip off the protections in a pdf? I'm not talking the 1% who are experts - I mean the average user (like me). And nope - I'm *not* asking for directions how.3. If the publisher does not lock down the pdf, do I, as the user, need anything other than the free Acrobat Reader to make use of the features mentioned?4. Assuming I don't, does that mean I can copy sections from open pdf's into MS Word docs or into MyInfo (a document manager I've started using), or similar word processors? Does the copied section paste as text, or an image?5. If 4. above is true, I can see huge benefits to the casual gamer for unlocking the features. If it's not true, how do you (or anyone else) use these features to make the product easier to use? Adding bookmarks is obvious - what else? (I'm trolling for ideas I can use myself). 6. Concerning publishing: How should a publisher communicate to the prospective buyer whether the pdf is open or not? Should it be in the description? Elsewhere? From the publisher's point of view, it should not read like a cigarette warning: "Warning. Opening this PDF file is going to be a terrible experience." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> At the same time, I can see this info helping buyers make informed decisions, so publishers should be encouraged to mention it in some fashion.I apologize in advance if these questions seem obvious, but as I said, I'm not a pdf expert. Thanks.</blockquote>

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