Editing PDFs

PDF redaction uncovered …. again!

A cursory glance, or rather quick search at Google will reveal that the topic of redacting PDF has been hot for a looong time.
During my time at Planet PDF, we even ran a review of a US government employee’s efforts at redaction gone wrong in which a thought-to-be-redacted report revealed names, training procedures and other [...]


PDFHammer.com: free online PDF editor

There’s a few online services that offer free PDF creation, but there are barely any that offer free online PDF editing, like PDFHammer does. It allows you to merge PDF files together, reorder and delete pages, apply password-based security and add and edit document metadata fields like author, title, subject and keywords.
All from the comfort [...]


Rosebud acquires a patent*

Rosebud PLM has moved to the next level with its WYSIWYG collaboration tool, Rosebud, based around Adobe PDF.
They announce that:

…”our unique method of collaboration on the Web — ‘Method and Software for enabling N-way collaboration work over the network for computers’ is officially designated as ‘patent pending’.”

and that….
Rosebud enables full lifecycle document review [...]


Whenever I edit my PDFs they triple in size!

It’s an issue that causes heart palpation’s for new users of PDFs every day. You spend two hours primping and pruning your PDF document — editing a word here, adding a comment there — and then save your document and try to attach it to an email message only to discover that it’s [...]