Re: Electronic Distribution of Copyrighted User Guides

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Mike Bradley <mike[_at_]sphinx.com> wrote:
>
> I checked with a couple of programmers. They say PDF files are binary
> files from which text cannot be extracted, so it would seem that PDF is
> effective in preventing the creation of derivative works by extracting
> text. But one can always scan and parse the printout from a PDF file,
> so the protection seems fairly trivial.

Are they C programmers? <grin>

I have hard time believing your statement about not being able to extract a text from a binary file. Certainly, it is always possible.

Joseph Pietro Riolo, a 16-year C programmer <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> Received on Fri Nov 20 1998 - 00:14:22 GMT