If one creates (or copies) a PDF by scanning a paper document, the creator of the document may be very unhappy to learn that it’s been altered. ![]() I’m pretty certain it was conceived as a way of distributing printable documents that would look the same on screen or in print, and that capability was one of the things that made the PostScript Laser Printer such a success in the 1980s. However, there is of course a huge difference between searchable and editable, and that brings up the very intention of the nature of the PDF document format.
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