← Back to context Comment by pling 12 years ago They just draw a black box over the text in the PDFs now...(No joke) 7 comments pling Reply rbanffy 12 years ago Yes, but now they remove the underlying text too. It was fun while it lasted. eli 12 years ago Current best practice is actually to draw the black boxes, print it, then scan it back in. The result is crummy quality pdfs with no metadata or hidden text. pling 12 years ago Well you'd think but I worked for an org back in 2005 that decided to completely optimise that step away.They were an aerospace/defense company building IFF units no less... 4 replies →
rbanffy 12 years ago Yes, but now they remove the underlying text too. It was fun while it lasted. eli 12 years ago Current best practice is actually to draw the black boxes, print it, then scan it back in. The result is crummy quality pdfs with no metadata or hidden text. pling 12 years ago Well you'd think but I worked for an org back in 2005 that decided to completely optimise that step away.They were an aerospace/defense company building IFF units no less... 4 replies →
eli 12 years ago Current best practice is actually to draw the black boxes, print it, then scan it back in. The result is crummy quality pdfs with no metadata or hidden text. pling 12 years ago Well you'd think but I worked for an org back in 2005 that decided to completely optimise that step away.They were an aerospace/defense company building IFF units no less... 4 replies →
pling 12 years ago Well you'd think but I worked for an org back in 2005 that decided to completely optimise that step away.They were an aerospace/defense company building IFF units no less... 4 replies →
Yes, but now they remove the underlying text too. It was fun while it lasted.
Current best practice is actually to draw the black boxes, print it, then scan it back in. The result is crummy quality pdfs with no metadata or hidden text.
Well you'd think but I worked for an org back in 2005 that decided to completely optimise that step away.
They were an aerospace/defense company building IFF units no less...
4 replies →