More on ScanTango and Redacting PDFs

Posted by EsquireMac in Applications, PDF on Aug 10th, 2008 | 3 comments
After my post about redacting PDFs without Adobe, Craig Landrum, the author of ScanTango sent me an excellent email. With his permission, I am posting his comments for your benefit. I’m the author of ScanTango and I really appreciate the nice mention of the application in your blog. Some feedback on redaction: When most applications redact, they simply put an opaque white or (more typically) black rectangle over the sensitive areas of the document. In most PDF software what this actually does is simply creates an opaque rectangular image object that sits above what is being redacted (whether...
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Redact Your PDFs Without Adobe

Posted by EsquireMac in PDF on Aug 6th, 2008 | 1 comment
As you may have noticed from my previous post about PDFs, for reasons spelled out there, I’m not a big fan of Adobe. I recently had occasion to produce several hundred pages of discovery. After bates stamping the documents, I had to redact some handwritten notes from the client to myself as they were privileged communications. There are multiple ways to redact PDF documents on a Mac. Here are a couple that I found useful. PDFPen and PDFPen Pro have tools that allow you to select an area and have it fill with black.  PDFPen is $50 and PDFPen Pro is $95. There is no difference between the Pro and...
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