I had my wife use Paperport Scan feature to create PDF files from scanned documents.
When I imported them into Acrobat 9, a lot of features were disabled:
1) could not Edit Image
2) could not use Typewriter - the font control options were disabled
3) could not use Textbox - once again, no control over the font.
I re-distilled the whole thing, and viola, the above started to work.
However, I am curious how I could detect a "bad" or non-compliant PDF file ?
Note: when I re-distilled the original PDF, the new one was not as sharp....
despite using the High Quality print image setting.
Is the problem related to third party vendors creating non-compliant PDF versions or what ?
If so, how could I detect these ?
Scanners are a variation of a camera. They just take a picture of the document. One then needs to perform an OCR, Optical Character Recognition, of the image to create the text from the image.
If Acrobat opened the PDF then it is a gook PDF.
There is an ISO standard for PDFs, how did the "bad" PDFs not meet that standard?
George Kaiser