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> I despise protected pdfs with a passion

When I want to "protect" a PDF, I print it as a TIFF and then PDF that document. It's less "protecting" than "making it difficult to alter or copy-paste from," but it works. (Also good for ensuring your redaction blobs can't be moved.)



Why use TIFF? It supports layers, so I'm not sure it'd guarantee that redaction blobs are effective.


Only way to be sure is to print with redaction blobs and then scan back into PDF.


Out of curiosity, why would you ever need/want to do that?




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