SLUUUUUUUT!
You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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Vortex - May 17, 2009 6:52:50 pm PDT #10000 of 25505
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Theodosia - May 18, 2009 2:13:13 am PDT #10001 of 25505
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Wow, sounds like a clueless coworker. "Oh, not everybody uses Andorra? And I thought you knew the password...."
le nubian - May 18, 2009 2:22:35 am PDT #10002 of 25505
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
brenda m - May 18, 2009 2:52:53 am PDT #10003 of 25505
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
By the way, this site is amazing for breaking even locked-down pdfs into usable Word files. (No idea what it could do with encryption, though I'm guessing not much.)
Volans - May 18, 2009 2:55:48 am PDT #10004 of 25505
move out and draw fire
My bad, it's Androsa, not Andorra. The password appears to be the one that everyone on our project uses for project-related documents.
le nub, thanks, but it's not the PDF encryption. He used Androsa rather than Acrobat's encryption, so the PDF breakers won't even recognize the files.
I think my plan of action is two-pronged at this point: 1) kick the encrypted files up the mgmt chain to our boss; 2) coat coworker's desk with vaseline.
Ginger - May 18, 2009 4:59:27 am PDT #10005 of 25505
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Does it get as far as creating AFP files? I do see there are a number of AFP to PDF conversion programs out there.
DCJensen - May 18, 2009 5:23:53 am PDT #10006 of 25505
All is well that ends in pizza.
Can you print it to another .pdf file? I have done that to rescue strangely encoded .pdf files.
Volans - May 18, 2009 6:14:49 am PDT #10007 of 25505
move out and draw fire
Does it get as far as creating AFP files? I do see there are a number of AFP to PDF conversion programs out there.
I do end up with AFP files. But when I try to run a conversion program (I've tried three) the converter tells me that "filename.afp is not an AFP file."
Ginger - May 18, 2009 6:23:26 am PDT #10008 of 25505
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
But when I try to run a conversion program (I've tried three) the converter tells me that "filename.afp is not an AFP file."
I hate that error message. Similar ones have left me pounding the desk and screaming "But it says it's a ____ file!"
Volans - May 18, 2009 6:59:37 am PDT #10009 of 25505
move out and draw fire
I even tried to rename it "filename.pdf" and open it with Reader.
In tech-success news, I added a second monitor, new speakers, and a new webcam to my PC at home. Then used them to skype my FiL, and ended up walking him through connecting his new Xbox to his home theater.