david said:
Acrobat doesn't store text in PDFs, they store pixels and vectors and OCR'd coordinates. Most-definately not text.
you must be making some kind of semantic argument that i don't grasp. because i can copy out my text just peachy. and most people can copy text out of many .pdfs just fine. it typically loses a good deal of its formatting, and it is not unusual for chunks of it to be ordered "out of place", and the users' ability to copy out text _can_ be disabled, or subverted in other ways (i.e., by converting text to an image format before writing it to the .pdf originally) but the experience of copying text from a .pdf is common. however, if you'd like to explain the point you're making, whether it is semantic or otherwise, do please feel free. :+) it probably won't matter much to me, but i don't mind keeping my brain exercised by doing a little thinking... -bowerbird