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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:36:20 -0500, HK wrote:

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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:19:03 -0500, Wayne.B
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:09:51 -0500, wrote:

Usually not true. PDF pages are essentially images, not free, editable text. You
would need the full version of acrobat, not the free reader to do anything with
the text in the PDF to which I posted the link.
You might be surprised.

Do a "right click" on the document and "select all". Paste to a
notepad file, and select out what you want:

It wasn't working on my home computer. I (incorrectly) assumed that the pages
were simply image scans of pages, which are really "pictures" and not editable.
That is sometimes the case.
I was using version 5 of Acrobat Reader. I upgraded to version 8 and those pages
are now editable.

No, they are not. You can copy and paste, but you cannot edit a *.PDF
document with Adobe Reader.

Being able to highlight and copy text to be pasted into another
document IS editing, Hairless.

That's *not* editing a *.PDF document with Reader, and that's what was
implicit in your statement.