Hm, the lock is tricky, when I try to print to PDF or XPS it scrambles the text. I will have look into how to use mupdf or the cover page idea if I can't get a clean copy from the professor. Thanks folks. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Christian Pietsch < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > if you are certain that a PDF file was encumbered with DRM > restrictions by mistake, then you can easily remove DRM using a tool > from the free MuPDF software which is available for all major > operating systems including Windows: http://www.mupdf.com/ > > If you have the current version, the command line goes like this: > mutool clean old.pdf new.pdf > > Older versions of MyPDF included a different executable for this: > pdfclean old.pdf new.pdf > > As for editing PDF files ... this is not what they are intended for, > but it is possible with tools like PDFedit <http://pdfedit.cz>, Gimp, > Inkscape or Scribus. > > Cheers, > Christian > > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 01:13:24PM -0400, Matthew Sherman wrote: > > Can anyone give me some advice in how I can edit this to add the > > required note to the top of the PDF? Any advice is welcome. > > -- > Christian Pietsch > http://purl.org/net/pietsch >