I am officially an old person, as I have subscribed to a magazine. It’s niche, but it’s been around a long time, and having enjoyed a lot of issues in my childhood that were given to me for free, I feel I should give back.

I’m wondering if there are precautions I should take. Can any sort of copy protection be put into PDFs that I should strip out? If I share them as a torrent, should I be worried that the publisher can tell where they came from?

    • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      The easiest way to confirm this would be:

      1. Find out how to list the metadata from a PDF.
      2. List the metadata from a known-to-have-stuff-you-don’t-want PDF.
      3. “Print” the new PDF from the old one
      4. List the metadata from the new PDF.
    • amigan@lemmy.dynatron.meEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      If you use ghostscript, it absolutely should, but you’re probably better off using something like cpdf.