[Sca-cooks] PDF files

[Jeff Gedney]

> I think there may be a way to prevent the Text Select tool from 
> working; I just copied text from a PDF document I had with no 
> problem, but when I tried to do the same with the "The 
> Thatcher's Craft" booklet, it didn't work.  It looks like they 
> have a sort of "read/write protect" default set.  Perhaps they 
> are concerned about people copying and re-using without proper 
> attribution?
>

In this case, I think it is because this whole document is actually a series of scanned pictures of pages from a previously published document, so it is all Graphics, and no "Text". 

I can copy the graphics and even the text section using the graphics tool without any problems. 

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The Purpose of the First Amendment is not to protect only 
comfortable speech. Such speech needs no protection. It is, 
rather, the daring, the profound, the probitive, and yes, the
offensive, that needs that shield.  For nothing significant, 
not in art, culture, or even in politics, has ever arisen 
from pandering to the whims of majority.



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Sandra Kisner <sjk3 at cornell.edu>
Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Date:  Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:28:07 -0400

>
>>I hate PDF files for the very same reasons stated here. They are darn hard
>>to read, they hurt my eyes and you can't manipulate them and pull bits of
>>text or change it in any way...
>>Cousin Phillipa
>
>Maybe you have an old version of Adobe?  At least when I open PDF files 
>(and I don't have the newest version of Adobe), I can select and copy most 
>text with no problems.  You have to be sure the Text Select Tool (box with 
>a large letter "T" in it on the toolbar) is selected, rather than the Hand 
>Tool (which seems to be the default), but it works fine for me in most 
>cases.  I'm not sure what you'd do to copy something other than text.  It 
>seems to vary from document to document, however.  
>Sandra 
>
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