Re: Electronic Distribution of Copyrighted User Guides

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> wrote:
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> 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>
 

Yes!! This is a UNIX company.

Thanks for the corrections.

• Mike Bradley National Writers Union <mike[_at_]sphinx.com>