Chapter 14. Redacting PDFs
A marvelous feature introduced in Acrobat 8 was the Redaction tools, which are used for removing data from PDF documents. In Acrobat 9, Adobe has expanded the tool options that provide you more sophisticated options for searching and redacting content in PDF files.
The Redaction tools appear in Acrobat Professional on the Mac and Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Pro Extended on Windows. You won't find Redaction features in Acrobat Standard on Windows.
In this chapter you learn about redaction, why and when it is necessary, the new Acrobat 9 features, and how to use all the Redaction tools.
Setting Up the Work Environment
Load the Redaction and Advanced Editing tools for applying redactions to documents. You'll find Redaction tools in a separate toolbar and accessible from a context menu opened from the Toolbar Well, or select Tools
What Is Redaction?
Quite simply, redaction is the removal of visual information from a document. You might want to use redaction to remove sensitive information for security purposes, to protect rights and privacy information, to eliminate classified information, to delete names of minors in legal documents, or to delete any other information you don't want viewed by others.
Redaction is much different than blotting out or hiding text, graphics, handwriting, or any other kind of marks. If you use tools like some of the comment tools to create ...
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