[OS X TeX] PDF security

George Gratzer gratzer at ms.umanitoba.ca
Fri Jun 15 11:40:28 EDT 2007


But I cannot do it! It says it cannot read the TeXShop file!

Gg

On Jun 15, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On 6/15/07, George Gratzer <gratzer at ms.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>> You mean Redaction tool?
>>
>> I get the message: I have difficulty reading this file.
>>
>> GG
>> P.S. Interesting. Searching the help for "delete character" does not
>> give me the redaction tool. G.
>>
>
> Redaction was introduced in A8. Everyone remembers few stories about
> lawyers (some of them working for US Government) who used to type in
> MSW, then cover sensitive places by black boxes, then print. Now they
> print to pdf and place them on web and anyone using copy/paste or
> export to rtf can remove these boxes. Google (and any text search)
> does not respect them either.
>
> On the other hand with reduction tool you can select any color of the
> box (including white) but redaction tool actually deletes data beneath
> of these boxes. Hope it will help
> (lawyers are hopeless :-)
>
> VI
>
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