Redacting PDF files: A survey of tools
Redaction has seemed like a timely subject for some time now. If you don’t know or care why, then you can just skip this piece. Once again, I drag out and beat Adobe for not only choosing to ignore redaction as a significant business feature, but for making it way too easy for the under-educated user to screw up in a highly publicised manner. The short version? Much as it is “electronic document” software par excellence, don’t try to redact with Acrobat 7.0. It could end in tears. There are, however, some really GREAT ways to go about redaction in PDF. Anyhow, enough of my preview, here’s the article.
