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Read-only files Anonymous
What was the trick to open read Pepakura V2 pdos in the designer instead of the viewer?
>> Anonymous
>>127616
???

You should have 2 separate programs:
- Pepakura Designer2
- Pepakura Viewer2
You should just be able to open .pdo's in Designer2.

hmm ... maybe you can't in the trial version; I don't know, because I've only had the full version
>> Anonymous
There was a glitch where you could open read-only files in designer because it was made with a later version of Pepakura. Or something along those lines. I don't remember the trick.
>> Anonymous
>>127663
First of all, I never tried this (because if a papercraft was so badly designed that I would need to edit it myself, I don't want to waste my time on it since the flaw is probably in the 3D model, not in the Pepakura unfolding, and neither have I ever felt the need to supersize a papercraft) but here's what people say:

Sometimes it's possible to open Pepakura files that the maker of the file locked with a password in Designer (normally you can open such locked files only in Viewer).
You have to have NO copy of Pepakura VIEWER installed: you can ONLY have the LATEST VERSION of Pepakura DESIGNER installed for this to work.

The Pepakura file needs to be made in the OLD VERSION of Pepakura Designer.

Now, if you have associated *.PDO files with Designer and not with Viewer, or you don't have Viewer installed at all and you open a Pepakura file locked with a password you will get a message that it is locked and it can't be opened by Designer. Click/ignore until the message goes away and it should open in Designer automatically, or you may need to browse for the exe manually, IF the file was made using the old Pepakura version.
Like I said, I have no idea if this works.
>> Anonymous
If the file is password-protected you can't open it in Designer. With official sites like Canon that's obviously the case.
>> Anonymous
>>127679
Official sites like Canon won't offer their models in PDO files; they offer them in PDF, since it's a very common and accepted form of sharing documents, everybody knows what to do with them, and installing Acrobat Reader has usually already been done for computer nobodies on their system when they buy it, and everybody else does it themselves usually the first time they go online. But PDO? Even /po/eple sometimes have to ask, apparantly, and for official companies like Canon to force people to install such an unknown software that doesn't even work on MACs... They wouldn't dare. ;o)

And "if the file is password-protected you can't open it in Designer": the WHOLE POINT of the "old locked version does open in new designer version"-bug is that you can. ;o)