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Date:	Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:23:26 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Locked PDF (was Another eCS group buy for SCOUG members)

In <20051228170635.22680.qmail@web81405.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, on 12/28/05
at 09:06 AM, J R FOX said:

> 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.

Then, unless there are version compatibility issues, you should be able to
view it.

>that, or it is just that none of the tools I mentioned
>have the capacity to do an end run around this issue.

What do you mean by this?

>There are certainly tools that can, without having to
>spend 500 smackers on the full Acrobat program that
>creates and edits PDF content.

Why don't you just use one of them?

>Minor edits. Change the numbers in a few dates
>mentioned in the text.

What's the problem? Are you have trouble locating the text to edit?

>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.

I suspect so. Newer versions of Acrobat Reader have the ability to mark
up an existing document, but best I can tell, this is not what you are
trying to do.

Steven

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