<story><title>Getting a full PDF from a DRM-encumbered online textbook</title><url>http://vgel.me/posts/cracking-online-textbook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aftbit</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve done the same thing before on a book in college, except my DRM wasn&amp;#x27;t nice enough to let me print 10 pages at a go. Instead, I spun up a virtual X server with Xdummy with a resolution of 1200x10000. That showed a few dozen pages at a time. Then I automated screenshots (scrot) and PageDown (xdotool). Finally, some PIL magic to look for the thin gray line between pages plus convert and ghostscript and I had a PDF!</text></comment>
<story><title>Getting a full PDF from a DRM-encumbered online textbook</title><url>http://vgel.me/posts/cracking-online-textbook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gohrt</author><text>DRM-laden online books is a red flag that the college you are attending is a thinly veiled profit center, not an education provider.&lt;p&gt;Has anyone made an index of which colleges require DRM textbook purchases in their courses?</text></comment>