[Sca-cooks] PDF files

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
Fri Apr 16 10:16:59 PDT 2004


> Just as a guess, I'd say one big problem with .pdf files is the 
> more-or-less impossibility of manipulating them, extracting text for 
> other documents, etc. They're pretty immutable, as far as I can tell,

The more recent versions of Adobe create PDFs where the text can be copied, unless you tell it 
to lock the text. I do this sort of thing for a living and while it's annoying it does work. 

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