Fuel-up: 308.3 mi / 11.211 gal = 27.5 mpg

100mg caf ~11:30, woven wheats w/olive tapenade hummus

cleaned out old notes in fon notepad

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I've been using the CutePDF Writer print-to-PDF driver for years and years now. Generally it does what it does very well, but something it does not do is print "secure" PDFs. In my scenario, you have a PDF that is not password-protected to open/view, but there is a password restriction to print it. CutePDF Writer's print dialog makes it look like it's going to print, which would give you a duplicate PDF without the print-prohibitive password protection. But when you open the resulting file, it's just a page with some plaintext error reporting.

CutePDF is not the only third-party PDF-making tool though. Google Chrome offers a built-in "Save as PDF" function, and can natively open and render PDFs. Opening a PDF to "Save as PDF", I half-expected it would merely save a copy of the original, but no - it saves an unsecured rendition, effectively stripping out the print password without having to know that password. If you ask me, the whole print-prevention attempt is silly, because if I'm intent on printing extra copies, I could just take screenshots and stitch them together, and end up with a reasonably high-quality, freely reproducible copy anyway. But moreso because I actually have hardcopy provided alongside the PDF version, so I could scan and reprint in a pinch anyway.