More PDF Blackout Follies

georgewilliamherbert writes "The latest installment of "As the PDF Blackouts Turn" hit today, with a U.S. government apparently releasing a redacted version of their court filing in the Balco grand jury leak case which merely stuck a black line over the text, which remains available in the document. As with prior documents, entering text cut/paste mode in a normal PDF browser such as Acrobat allows a reader to access the concealed text. Previous incidents include an AT&T filing in the NSA case." This works with Xpdf and KPDF, too; for KPDF, use the selection tool (under the Tools menu) around the redacted section, copy to clipboard, then paste into the text-manipulator of your choice.

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For the last friggin time - it's COPY and paste!!

[storemike]

For all the dipshits out there who don't know the difference between cut and copy, here are the basics: Cut deletes the selected text while saving a copy of it in the clipboard. Copy just copies the selected text to the clipboard. If the original or source text remains unchanged, you are not cutting, you are copying. Saying cut and paste is about as intelligent as my former boss saying that he had to "flush" [sic] out the development plans. Oh, and, by the way, more/most + adjective = comparative/superlative case 99% of the time. More simple and most deadly are about as wrong as Bush's presidency.