PDF Security
As a web designer, you are constantly 'copying' information from other sources - usually manufacturers for retailers. PDF's can now be secured which is a pain so you cannot copy and paste from them.
However, I discovered yesterday through trial and error that if you PDF print a page you want to copy (text that is - image you just print screen) then you have the page in a new unsecure PDF page - then Acrobat offers to OCR it for you - very kind - and hey presto you get the text you want - though invariable you still have to format it and double check for errors - so are you any better off timewise than retyping it?
Something i've noticed on two machines recently is wide screen monitors have 125% screen view which makes web sites appear differently - the text that is - which is rather annoying as you get more text wrap and other problems. Wondering how to overcome that....
However, I discovered yesterday through trial and error that if you PDF print a page you want to copy (text that is - image you just print screen) then you have the page in a new unsecure PDF page - then Acrobat offers to OCR it for you - very kind - and hey presto you get the text you want - though invariable you still have to format it and double check for errors - so are you any better off timewise than retyping it?
Something i've noticed on two machines recently is wide screen monitors have 125% screen view which makes web sites appear differently - the text that is - which is rather annoying as you get more text wrap and other problems. Wondering how to overcome that....
posted by watsy at Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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