Greetings, it's Maxo Diddly. Today I'm going to be showing you how you can download a PDF on Google Drive that has the download button disabled. So, you're able to read a PDF. However, you want to download it to make a backup or for whatever reason. But when you try to, there's no option to download it or print it and the download button is grayed out.
So what can you do? Well, luckily you can use a bit of JavaScript to do so. So there's a link in the description below. It is to this Google Doc that you'll be able to access.
And I want you to copy everything in this document, which is a little JavaScript script. Then I want you to go back to where this PDF is. I want you to open the PDF. Then I want you to scroll to the last page of the PDF. After that, I want you to press the F12 key on the keyboard.
to open up your console. Then I want you to right click and click on paste. Then I want you to press the enter key and look it's downloaded the PDF. Now if you get a warning about don't paste code into the DevTools console what you need to do is you need to type allow pasting and then hit the enter key to allow pasting.
Once you do that then re... Paste the code from the Google Doc and hit the Enter key to download your PDF file. One little disclaimer, this JavaScript code essentially converts each page of the PDF on the Google Drive to an image and then creates a new PDF with each image having its own page. So you won't be able to copy and paste the text or do any finding of text.
But you do have A copy of the PDF downloaded. Thanks for watching this quick tutorial. I will see you next time.