if you know how to use Adobe , yes you can block it from printing out to
word as saved text.

My company produces competitive intelligence and we construct pdf's in a way
that you can NOT export the text in anyway, except if you want to type it
out by hand

If you want to take up the challenge let me know

We can meet on AIM or YIM, I can send you a PDF sample via file transfer and
see how long it takes for you to crack the PDF. If it is a software trick,
the size of the PDF wont matter.

I can type 10 pages of text in about 12 minutes too if thats what you were
thinking.

Otherwise, get a webcam or fly to new york and let me see how you do it
snappy.


"John Smith" wrote in message
news
You are gravely mistaken if you think .pdf protects text at all... name a
small (10 pages or less) .pdf doc and I will a word doc of it in
minutes... .pdf is NOT a security format...

Warmest regards,
John

"Mr. Man with the Master Plan" wrote in message
...
you can protect text in PDF format. I do it all the time so people cant
copy my work. Now they have to retype it


"Caveat Lector" wrote in message
news:HxQje.1450$Xh.611@fed1read07...
Maybe not the right place but seems there are several web experts here.

Can web spiders read and harvest e-mail addresses from a pdf file ?

Many users and folks like QRZ.com are using jpegs not ascii for listing
e-mails -- this seems to work.

So for pdf files without going to a jpeg --- is ascii text addresses
harvestable ?

Thanks

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CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !