Re: Electronic Distribution of Copyrighted User Guides

On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, John Noble <jnoble[_at_]dgsys.com> wrote:
>
> It depends. A PDF file can also be an image file from which you cannot
> select text.

Sure, it can be. A Word file can contain one big image of text, too. But there's nothing inherent in either format, PDF or Word, that prevents text from being copied from it.

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