- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:20:30 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> > it has been published as a read only pdf, although it is an application = > form. Do you mean it is not a PDF Form, or that it is flagged as readonly. In the latter case, whether intentionally or not, the author is re-inforcing the implied copyright on the form. Even if the PDF is not marked readonly, the implied copyright means that converting it into a PDF Form would be a breach of copyright. Doing a once only overlay of the form electronically would also be a breach but as it is so close to the expected use of the form, I think they would end up with only token damages and their own costs to pay if they tried to prosecute, but IANAL. I've noticed a recent trend towards the assumption that making a web resource accessible is a defence in copyright law; unfortunately the authors have the right to expect that their bad design not be corrected. > Does anyone know of a means of editing this document, other than = > scanning, ocr.....? Use Acrobat reader to convert it to PostScript and edit the PostScript. If the form is not marked readonly, I assume that Acrobat Distiller could add PDF Forms fields, although you can also do this, with some knowledge of PostScript, by editing in the relevant PDFMark operators. > ------=_NextPart_000_0093_01C0C931.F532C6E0 > Content-Type: text/html; Please turn this pseudo-HTML duplicate off.
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