It can be incredibly frustrating dealing with their support, like this one time where they refused to accept logs in. Granted, Adobe/Oracle are probably worse, but at least you don't have to call Adobe every month, unlike Microsoft where shit breaks every month. To deal with professionally? Microsoft aren't even high on the list.Ĭlearly, you haven't dealt with Microsoft's customer support. Even back when Microsoft was a giant monopoly their licensing costs didn't get too silly or evil (as opposed to some of their anti-competitive business practices, which I won't defend). But purely from a professional standpoint, they're pretty reasonable and reliable in their approach. If that doesn't get you then their lawyers and auditors will search your network for a random employee installing the Java runtime or Adobe Reader then send you a bill for absurd amounts.ĭo I think Microsoft are the "good guys?" Na. OracleDB), start you at reasonable prices, then suddenly jam in a 5,000% increase that you'll negotiate back down to a "discount" of only 100%. Microsoft wants to be viewed like your electric or water bill: Just the non-optional utility cost of doing business.Īdobe/Oracle buy products with high lock in potential then add a bunch of their other products as dependencies (e.g. They keep price increases just at the level that they're mostly ignored. They just want to be unnoticed, unless you're looking to expand services. Microsoft's whole game is to keep you happy enough to become invisible, and to keep paying them until the earth falls into a blackhole. To deal with professionally? Microsoft aren't even high on the list. If you have some scale, you can usually consolidate services, as well. With SOA or its cousin Microservices, it's a tractable to rewrite a service from scratch in a new programming language if it seems warranted. Since you can switch out the front/middle/back independently. (Great code already has tests.) When there are problems, 95% of the time, the issues started when the original code was written, and the library swap ends up being an opportunity to refactor something that nobody knew needed to be refactored. In good code, there aren't really any surprises, and most of the work is in writing some tests. Out of a two dozen libraries, one of them gets deprecated after ten or twenty years. Some of the maintenance work I pick for myself is swapping libraries in underlying code. If the front-end is HTML5, it should be maintainable indefinitely. Now when we look in the working folder, we will see two files.Anything built around HTML/JS/CSS, even if the backend technology is discontinued, you can likely keep re-using the front-end and as well as any database queries. We will still be in the original file. At this point, close Adobe and select NO to saving changes. NOTE: This will NOT open the flattened PDF in Adobe Automatically. Choose an appropriate folder and name your redacted and flattened PDF. Hit PRINT and a File Save box will appear. !!!!CHOOSE ADVANCED PRINT SETUP > PRINT AS IMAGE !!!! Otherwise, Adobe keeps the OCR text in tact and the “hidden” text below a black bar box can be highlighted & copied. Also, change Comments and Forms dropdown to select “Document and Markups”. This allows us to change the line Color and Fill Color to BLACK.ĭo NOT SAVE or SAVE AS!! It is very important to FILE > PRINT as this flattens the PDF file, removing meta data and comment layers.Ĭhoose “Microsoft Print to PDF” as the printer. Right click the Rectangle tool and choose “Tool Default Properties”. Open the Comment tab and find the Rectangle tool in Drawing Markups. I am using version X, but the process is the same for XI, XII, and DC. To begin, open your PDF file in Acrobat Standard. The trick is to use the built in comment tools and then flatten the PDF to remove layer comments. Here is how we can effectively do the same with the Standard version of Acrobat. We can work around that by re-saving the redacted file as a “Flat PDF” using the built in Microsoft Print to PDF.Īdobe advertises Acrobat Pro as being the only solution to redact documents. However, this normally leaves meta data that can be used to simply remove the drawing / comment markup box. We can use the shape tool to redact lines in Adobe Acrobat Standard.
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