COPY from PDF-viewer

Hi. I tried copy some text from PDF file in Adobe Reader, or Foxit Reader, or PDF-Xchange Viewer. And always feature COPY was disabled.
Why ? On Windows 7 it works.

not sure how it's working from windows 7, what pdf reader are you using?
the document is protected from being copied, but looks like its allowed for accessibility copying - not sure what setting that would refer to though
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