ANSTHRLD - Award Texts in PDF format

[Jennifer Smith]

On 13 Oct 00, at 10:49, Timothy A. McDaniel wrote:
> Anyone who purchases the full Adobe software can edit a PDF file.
> Though few people choose to shell out the hundreds of dollars for
> that, some businesses do.  Someone with Postscript experience could
> also edit it, but that knowledge is rare too.  I suspect you could
> probably make simple changes with a text editor ("not" to "now", say).

As far as I know (as someone who actually owns the full Adobe software), 
the PDF file *cannot* be edited IF it was saved with the security feature "do 
not allow changes" turned on, and a security password set.  (Obviously if 
you know the password, you can still make changes.)

Since that feature can only be turned on in Acrobat Exchange, a piece of 
software most people don't have, I bet it's not set on most of our PDF 
documents, so is a moot point.

(Furthermore, as for Postscript, it could possibly be done, if you knew the 
encoding format Adobe uses for the actual text bits.  It is decidedly odd 
looking.)

-Emma de Fetherstan

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Jennifer Smith
jds at randomgang.com
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