[Sca-cooks] Re: PDF files

Sandra Kisner sjk3 at cornell.edu
Fri Apr 16 12:11:23 PDT 2004


> > 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) (snip)
>
>OOOH!!  Wow!  It worked!  I had just received a PDF copy of our kingdom
>newsletter to proofread and spent the better part of two hours re-typing
>sections that needed correction because I couldn't copy from the file I was
>sent.  Next time it's cut and paste!  Thanks, Sandra!

Actually, if you can write to PDF files, you can edit them too, though it's 
been a while since I've had to.  It doesn't re-wrap, however, so it only 
really works well if you only need to make small changes (typos and 
such).  For bigger changes cut and paste probably would work better.

Sandra 




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