PBinWA said:
I've got some great Mac "tricks" to pass along to your IT guys. Please send me their contact info.
Hey PB,
I have a Mac "trick" for you.
Have you ever looked at something on your browser that you wanted to print but could not because it was a pop up or you got a document with a watermark in it?
In Mac OS X you can get those documents into PDF using the "Print to PDF" feature of the OS or you can "Grab" a snapshot of what is on your screen with the Mac OS X "Grab" Utility. If you can see it on your screen then you can write it into a PDF file no mater what. because your display is already displaying it as PDF since it is a PDF device.
Anyhow, once you get it into PDF, you can easily remove those watermarks because the PDF which is generated by the Mac OS X graphics engine always tries to write everything as independant vector based elemenets and those elements which are embedded bitmaps are seperated from the other vector based elements.
In other worlds, Simply open up the PDF file you saved to disk and select out the text you want and the water mark will be left behiind.
ba bing.. nice loophole for watermarks and other things like popup which they don't want you saving, altering, or printing.
hope you liked that "trick".