First I came in here to thank you guys for helping me do this.
Second, I found the instructions a little bit hard to follow. So I wanna make it easier for the next person. It was also hard enough to find this method. I've been searching for hours and looking for a simple program to do this.
I will rewrite the steps and even include all the files I used. I'm on windows 7, 64 bit. However the file versions I used were 32 bit versions because I saw someone in this thread say to use those instead.
- All the files you need will be in the zip I'm about to link you to. Download this zip file:
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/434887428/for_stupid_digital_protection.zip
- Install python by running python 2.71.msi (originally found @ http://www.python.org/download/)
- Run 'pycrypto-2.1.0.win32-py2.7.exe' (I had problems running the regular python files, so i downloaded the windows binary file for python 2.7 @ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/m...shtml#pycrypto )
- Find where your digital files are stored, in my case it was a pdf and it was saved in "C:\Users\ *YOUR_USER_NAME* \Documents\My Digital Editions" where *YOUR_USER_NAME* is the name of the admin account of your computer.
- Extract 'ineptepub.pyw', 'ineptkey.pyw' and 'ineptpdf74.pyw' into the directory from step 4.
- Run 'ineptkey.pyw'. It will find the key and write it to hard disk as "ADEPTKEY.DER " in the same directory.
- Since my file was a pdf, I ran the file 'ineptpdf74.pyw'. A popup will come up, now for the 'input file' find the pdf file (should be in the step 4 directory).
- Output file give it a name + a pdf extension, for example file.pdf
- And wa-la that's it. Hope that made it easier for you.
Some questions,
#1 Should I make this into a youtube tutorial and will there be any problems with doing it?
#2 If I distribute the new pdf file, will there be anything that can be traced back to me?
Anyway I'm so glad I don't have to use adobe digital edition.