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| At 11:40 AM 8/10/99 -0700, David Knopf wrote:
| >Melissa Morgan wrote:
| >
| >| Supposedly you can cut, copy, and
| >| paste freely, but I've yet to figure out
| >| how to do this for more than one line
| >| at a time.
| >
| >Why wouldn't you edit the source files from which the PDF was generated,
| >and
| >then re-create the PDF? After all, any changes you make to the PDF must
| >still be reflected in the source files, no?
|
| Okay, this brings me to a related question. Is there any tool that allows
| you to do something that mimics hand-editing on an electronic file?
Well ... you could give them a PDF and a copy of Acrobat 4, which allows you
to highlight, cross-out and otherwise mark up the PDF.