Acrobat for Legal Professionals

October 12, 2006

Typewriter Tool Opacity Bug

File this in the category of  "we're not perfect."

Sometimes, the Acrobat 7 (and up) Typewriter tool will change opacity (transparency) from black to a light gray. I've seen this bug myself and have heard from a few folks via this blog that they've seen it too.

Read on for some a possible fix.

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October 05, 2006

Acrobat 8 New Features: Redaction

Redaction is the permanent deletion of data from documents.

Documents are redacted in order to maintain privacy, censor state secrets, or protect intellectual property.

I have written about Redaction previously in this blog ( Redacting PDFs | Redaction Part 2: Something Else You Shouldn't Do ) pointing out the dangers of improperly redacting files.

Acrobat 8 Professional now make many of the dangers and workarounds moot, so this is a welcome tool for the legal market.

The new redaction tools are quite powerful. Let's take a look…

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