Tips & Tricks

By Sandra Rosenzweig
     
      A reader asks: In Adobe Acrobat 8x, what's the difference between a PDF file and a PDF package? Answer: a lot. A PDF file is just that, the thing you've come to know as a PDF file. A PDF package gathers together a bunch of PDF files and wraps them in a sparkly cover sheet (which may be as simple as a fax cover sheet or may interactively tell the reader how to use the file), then ties a security ribbon around it, making redactions permanent and undiscoverable, and metadata, comments, and other secret data unretrievable. You might even want to add a signature and an encryption bow.
     

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