PDF editing issues

[Dov Isaacs]

Guess it was! Should have gotten a few more hours
of sleep before hitting the machine this morning.

	- Dov 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Creamer [mailto:ideaslists at ideastraining.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 9:30 AM
> To: Dov Isaacs; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: PDF editing issues
> 
> >> For some strange reason, in Acrobat you can't even _delete_ text
> >> unless you have the font installed on your system. Try 
> these two options:
> >> 
> >>     1] Right-click on the type and go to Properties.
> >>         Change the font to one in your system (lower down 
> on the list).
> >>         Use the Touchup Text tool to delete the text.>
> > 
> > There is a very simple workaround for the problem of DELETING
> > text in font that doesn't allow editing privileges.
> > 
> > It turns out that there is ONE operation that IS allowed for
> > such text. You are still allowed to change the font to any
> > font that you have installed on your system that does allow
> > editable embedding. Change the font from, let's say "Glurbish
> > Modern" (a font that obviously doesn't allow editing) to
> > let's say "Inebriated Oblique" (a font that probably doesn't
> > care if it is embedded or whatever). Once the font change is
> > made from Glurbish Modern to Inebriated Oblique, you can delete
> > the characters that are now in Inebriated Oblique without any
> > problem.
> > 
> Dov, isn't this basically what I said, or am I missing 
> something (which is
> entirely possible)?
> 
> Dave Creamer
> I.D.E.A.S.
> 
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