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Get this trying to open PDFs embedded in Word documents?

PDF Issues 1

Turn off the annoying Enable Protected Mode at Startup fixes it.

PDF Issues 2

Just print the PDF to Microsoft Office Document Image Writer (I believe comes with Office). It will save it as a TIF. Open in Gimp and then edit the text as you wish. Used to blank out some text.

.snp to PDF

Get Snapshot viewer


http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=b73df33f-6d74-423d-8274-8b7e6313edfb&DisplayLang=en

Then get CutePDF or whatever PDF Writer you want.

http://www.cutepdf.com/

Then open the file in Snapshot viewer and save as .PDF

Most people have a PDF reader, most people don’t have the snapshot viewer.

As the snapshot is uneditable anyway, putting it into PDF shouldn’t be a problem. And you might even be able to edit the PDF if you have a full PDF package.