wrote:
> >I was trying to do some *very* minor edits on an
> >apparently "locked down" .PDF file today.
>
> What do you mean by locked down?
Hi Steven,
If I understand the design intent, *one* of the ideas
behind PDF is that it can create documents which the
reader cannot alter, only view, and it should look
exactly the same way it was created when it is viewed
on other systems. That would be why it is "portable."
Anyway, the locking is supposed to be optional. The
properties thingy for Acrobat (more likely in the
Acrobat 6 Reader I have on the Dark Side than in our
version) says that this document does NOT have
security enabled. I'm not 100 % sure if I believe
that, or it is just that none of the tools I mentioned
have the capacity to do an end run around this issue.
There are certainly tools that can, without having to
spend 500 smackers on the full Acrobat program that
creates and edits PDF content. Some of them are
probably free. (Poor Man's Distiller ?)
> >Couldn't
> >_touch it_ with the Odin-ized 4.05 reader, or the
> >Lotus Suite, or Open Office, or even with
> GhostScript.
>> What do you mean by can touch it?
Minor edits. Change the numbers in a few dates
mentioned in the text.
> Acrobat v4 now qualifies as rather old which means
> is can not be expected
> to every valid PDF format that currently exists. I
> find the v5 beta more
> reliable even though it too is several versions
> behind the current Abobe
> offering.
I thought someone on another list told me that he is
able to do this in Acrobat *Reader* itself, without
recourse to heavier artillery, but I now think I must
have mistaken what he was saying.
Jordan
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