OT: Text editing i PDF

[Verakso <verakso@xxxxxxxxx>]

Excuse me for this little OT, but this is the only place I know of,
and there is some PDF experts her that might have a comment or two on
this.

As I am working in a Printing House, I am very familiar with customers
delivering PDF for print, in fact the whole work flow is ApogeeX PDF
based, if someone know this.

The PDF received are all with the fonts embedded, which is nice, since
it allows us to correct minor typos in the material.
Now text editing i Acrobat 4,0 was easy, in 5.0 it could be done but
was a bit complicated, but i 6.0 it was rather impossible, even with a
tool like PitStop, and i version 7.0 i simply can't be done, unless
you already have the font installed on the system (And PitStop isnøt
even released in a version that supports 7.0).

For obvious reasons this is properly due to various licensing issues
between Adobe and font vendors, but removing the possibility to edit
text in a PDF with the font embedded, is like saying to a print house
like us, that we might as well skip the PDF work flow, and return to
the old days, with postscript files, native open documents and the
fonts along on a disk.

I really can't believe we are the only printers that see this as an
issue, on the other hand - perhaps it is because we don't no any
loopholes - if there are any.

/Thomas


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