Ok, so it did say it would take more than a day… Well, maybe the app automatically pauses if the Mac sleeps? Test #2 PDF file: password = “mac1234” (without the quotes) I wasn’t expecting to have it only take 3 seconds though! That was too easy. I knew any password decryption app would figure this one out if it worked at all. “Apple” is obviously a short password, and to make things easier, it’s a word found in the dictionary. Test #1 PDF file: password = “apple” (without the quotes) I’ll make this short and sweet, cause let’s be honest – there ain’t nothin’ sexy about password recovery! Heck, I’ll even use pictures to tell the story. Below are my findings in my initial tests. It’s the only Mac solution I came across that not only can bypass the no-print restrictions, but the more annoying “password just to open issue.” Plus, I’ve reviewed a few of Eltima’s apps before and found them to work pretty darn well. So I decided to give Eltima’s Recover PDF Password ($40 minus 15% off if you use the offer code GRAPH-MAC-15 at checkout time) app a try. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work anymore. Prior to Mac OS X Leopard, you could open the PDF in Apple’s ColorSync Utility – a simple workaround that obviously got missed by someone at Apple. How to get into the PDF is the immediate dilemma we need to deal with. That guy is a jerk, but that’s for another time. I’m referring to the obnoxious graphic artist at Client X who no longer works there who set the security settings on an important PDF to require a password just to open. I’m not talking about a restricted PDF that doesn’t allow you to print or copy text out of, those are easy to work around. It’s not often that I get a password protected PDF file that I don’t get the password for.
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