Yeah, I need help on an xsl stylesheet that I'm using against xml data....
We didn't have sex, if that's what you mean. That's all I do now, not have sex.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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tommyrot - May 15, 2009 9:32:42 am PDT #9997 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
le nubian - May 15, 2009 9:50:48 am PDT #9998 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
out of my field of expertise! sorry.
Volans - May 17, 2009 5:47:27 pm PDT #9999 of 25501
move out and draw fire
A co-worker zipped up some .PDFs into a self-extracting executable and sent it to me as "FILES.EXE" No problem, right? Except he used something called Andorra or similar to compress them, which also as a bonus encrypted them.
I downloaded the same program and used it to open the .exe...the log tells me there are in fact five PDF files, but it appears to extract them, decrypt them, turn them into AFP files, and then choke on its own tongue.
AFP seems to be the proprietary format of the encryption/compression program; does anyone have any idea how I can get the PDFs?
Hint: Said co-worker is on vacation and I can't get ahold of him.
ETA: NUMBERSLUT
Vortex - May 17, 2009 6:52:50 pm PDT #10000 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
SLUUUUUUUT!
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"
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 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.