Wow, sounds like a clueless coworker. "Oh, not everybody uses Andorra? And I thought you knew the password...."
Slay-er? Chosen One. She who hangs out a lot in cemeteries? You're kidding. Ask around. Look it up: Slayer comma The.
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Theodosia - May 18, 2009 2:13:13 am PDT #10001 of 25501
'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"
le nubian - May 18, 2009 2:22:35 am PDT #10002 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
brenda m - May 18, 2009 2:52:53 am PDT #10003 of 25501
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 25501
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 25501
"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 25501
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 25501
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 25501
"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 25501
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.
§ ita § - May 18, 2009 11:35:05 am PDT #10010 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I know that this list is a couple years old, but since I'm putting my Mac back together I wondered if there was anything else one "needs."
Other than what's on this list I had to have:
- Bluephone Elite: integrates my phone with my Mac desktop. I can text from my computer and I get call notifications onscreen (in combination with Growl, methinks) that can even be read aloud in annoying voices. It's not free, but I like it enough to buy.
- Skype. My family is overseas. 'Nuff said.
- Opera. Browser of choice
- Chicken of the VNC, so I can control my desktops in the other room.