[X4U] Mac OCR

Craig craig at craigwdesigns.com
Wed Jul 28 18:22:58 PDT 2004


On Jul 28, 2004, at 5:10 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:

> As far as I know, OS X by itself can't create protected PDF's.  In 
> fact,
> it is a poorly kept secret that if you view a protected PDF in Viewer,

What's Viewer?

> and then print to PDF, that the resulting PDF often is unprotected.  (A
> huge security violation.)
>

When I print to PDF the resulting file has no selectable text portions; 
no longer editable unless you feed it back to an OCR.

-Craig



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