Dude, "that penguin itch"? I think you may have a problem. This sounds like a cry for help on the order of stealing bottles of mouthwash from Safeway at 6AM. Look for a meeting in your area, I think there's one in the snack food aisle of Fry's.
If you use Group 4 tiff encoding, which is standard in the legal industry, there should be no problem with file size. Clean text like a court filing should be no more than 20-30k per page. This is probably how I would do it; print to tiff (no screenshots of course), import to IPro or whatever and redact (any litigation database software should support redaction), then export PDF again. The problem is that if you need searchable pdf you need to OCR the tiffs at some point after you've redacted them and the quality of the OCR is not as good as extracted text from the original doc.
I'm sure that in this case whoever redacted the pdf didn't have access to the original file, and while it's easy to draw boxes in Acrobat, there's no easy way to delete the underlying text. Whoever was responsible for this should have had access to the tools to do this correctly, or if not they should have hired a vendor, I think I'd charge about $35 for this job.
Also, why is this hosted on the SFGate site? Where was it originally?
OK, I'm absolutely not a lawyer, but it seems to me that the familiar Compact Disc Digital Audio trademark is probably way too diluted to hold up under American law. If you look at the jewel cases around you you'll probably see that almost all of the trays carry the logo, regardless of what they're holding. For example in my immediate desk area I see: Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh, Corbis and PhotoDisc stock art CDs, some brands of CD-R (Maxell uses the Compact Disc Recordable logo on their tray, Imation and Kodak use it on the insert but use the audio logo on the tray) Not to mention the hybrid CDs that have been on music dealers' shelves for years.
I think that Philips' failure to crack down on this behavior for the past 8 or 10 years would render their trademark useless in the USA.
I'm not sure whether I really care much about this security thing, but it doesn't really matter since I've been boycotting Borders for 5 years for union busting. This also includes Waldenbooks and Planet Records, and I'd have extended it to Webvan too, although their appeal was lost on me anyhow. This was all touched on in Michael Moore's "The Big One." so I'm a bit suprised noone's mentioned it.
It's pretty much the same story with B&N and Amazon, Powell's and of course Wal-Mart.
Now if you don't like or believe in unions, or it's just too much trouble to shop in independent bookstores, that's up to you. You shouldn't let Michael Moore or Noam Chomsky, much less me, tell you what to do. I know a little about labor history and I have to follow my conscience.
Actually I have mixed feelings about unions, generally their political agendas don't mesh well with my own (see Seattle '99, Wedding Party of the Left and the Right), but I think that the organizing of workers to protect their rights and interests is a vital component of a free market. Not that I'm one of these "any sufficiently free market is indistinguishable from magic" types that you see here so often, I just believe in maximum Liberty. (And yes, if you're wondering, this would include Borders' right to install face recognition systems, as well as my right to stay the hell out of there, and to encourage others to do so as well.) Market forces will kill Borders on this, but only if a lot of education is done.
There's a ton of information on this on the web, one representative link below:
Slashdot Mirror
Dude, "that penguin itch"? I think you may have a problem. This sounds like a cry for help on the order of stealing bottles of mouthwash from Safeway at 6AM. Look for a meeting in your area, I think there's one in the snack food aisle of Fry's.
If you use Group 4 tiff encoding, which is standard in the legal industry, there should be no problem with file size. Clean text like a court filing should be no more than 20-30k per page. This is probably how I would do it; print to tiff (no screenshots of course), import to IPro or whatever and redact (any litigation database software should support redaction), then export PDF again. The problem is that if you need searchable pdf you need to OCR the tiffs at some point after you've redacted them and the quality of the OCR is not as good as extracted text from the original doc.
I'm sure that in this case whoever redacted the pdf didn't have access to the original file, and while it's easy to draw boxes in Acrobat, there's no easy way to delete the underlying text. Whoever was responsible for this should have had access to the tools to do this correctly, or if not they should have hired a vendor, I think I'd charge about $35 for this job.
Also, why is this hosted on the SFGate site? Where was it originally?
OK, I'm absolutely not a lawyer, but it seems to me that the familiar Compact Disc Digital Audio trademark is probably way too diluted to hold up under American law. If you look at the jewel cases around you you'll probably see that almost all of the trays carry the logo, regardless of what they're holding. For example in my immediate desk area I see: Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh, Corbis and PhotoDisc stock art CDs, some brands of CD-R (Maxell uses the Compact Disc Recordable logo on their tray, Imation and Kodak use it on the insert but use the audio logo on the tray) Not to mention the hybrid CDs that have been on music dealers' shelves for years.
I think that Philips' failure to crack down on this behavior for the past 8 or 10 years would render their trademark useless in the USA.
Any opinions?
I'm not sure whether I really care much about this security thing, but it doesn't really matter since I've been boycotting Borders for 5 years for union busting. This also includes Waldenbooks and Planet Records, and I'd have extended it to Webvan too, although their appeal was lost on me anyhow. This was all touched on in Michael Moore's "The Big One." so I'm a bit suprised noone's mentioned it.
It's pretty much the same story with B&N and Amazon, Powell's and of course Wal-Mart.
Now if you don't like or believe in unions, or it's just too much trouble to shop in independent bookstores, that's up to you. You shouldn't let Michael Moore or Noam Chomsky, much less me, tell you what to do. I know a little about labor history and I have to follow my conscience.
Actually I have mixed feelings about unions, generally their political agendas don't mesh well with my own (see Seattle '99, Wedding Party of the Left and the Right), but I think that the organizing of workers to protect their rights and interests is a vital component of a free market. Not that I'm one of these "any sufficiently free market is indistinguishable from magic" types that you see here so often, I just believe in maximum Liberty. (And yes, if you're wondering, this would include Borders' right to install face recognition systems, as well as my right to stay the hell out of there, and to encourage others to do so as well.) Market forces will kill Borders on this, but only if a lot of education is done.
There's a ton of information on this on the web, one representative link below:
http://parsons.iww.org/~borders/