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why PDF?

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nix
nix Original post #1
Jul 3, 2005 at 2:50 PM
why PDF? what are the advantages of PDF? can text from PDF be copied?
koolbluez
Jul 3, 2005 at 3:26 PM
FAQs on PDF

Copying and Pasting PDF Content into a New File

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nix
nix #3
Jul 3, 2005 at 4:05 PM
hi

oh shoot!... its so easy.. :oops:
now i guess theres absolutely no way to protect my work. :cry:
thanks for the help anyway.
alib_i
alib_i #4
Jul 4, 2005 at 7:02 PM
there is one thing you can do, i've seen this in some papers (journals)
convert your work to image .. and then convert to pdf.
so now pdf content cannot be copied as text or converted to word in text form.
*www.ozgrid.com/Services/text-image-converter.htm
its quite safe

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alibi
nix
nix #5
Jul 4, 2005 at 11:09 PM
hi

hmm yes good idea alib_i. thanks a lot
i dont think may need to put that image into PDF, since already text is converted to image, people can save the image to read the text, that way atleast they'll remember the source :)

ohh wait...oh my god... :eek: i used it and it gives me about 30 image files coz the HTML has lotsa text...hmm good tho. hmm lets see i think i gotta think of somehow altering this to my needs :D
expertno.1
Jul 4, 2005 at 11:34 PM
well pdf formats are the best avilable for documents

they are compressed and give lower sizes even if they contain images

like the digit full magazine pdf..only 11 mb and 120 pages with images
alib_i
alib_i #7
Jul 5, 2005 at 2:03 AM
@nix ..
reduce the text size .. probly u'll get less no. of images

but i must tell you .. there are software which can extract text out of images. but they're rare and very few people know abt them .. and even rarer bunch have them
so lets just say .. you're relatively very safe

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alibi