Adobe Acrobat Professional Query/DTP

[Han Solo]

Hello
I have a series of pdf documents that I have to send to several people.
However I need to restrict certain parts of the text by blacking it out.
I have a trial version of Adobe Acrobat Professional.
I have come up with 2 methods to do this
(1) Highlight the text with a blank marker rather than yellow for example.

or
(2) Draw a white solid box and place it over the appropriate text.
And then apply a Password restricting the editing of the document.
However I notice that Adobe have a warning saying effectively that some 3rd party s/w can bypass the security settings

My queries are
(1) Is there any way to prevent 3rd party s/w seeing the text I intended to black out

Or (2) Is there any way to use a scissors type tool and effectively cut out the part of the document I want to conceal.
(The cropping tool appears to be a rectangular tool of what you want to include rather than conceal)
I need to black out text randomly throughout the text ?
I am not very familiar with Adobe and
Any suggestions would be gratefully received
Many thanks

 

[ClubMan]

If you really need to remove the text in question then you will need to do just that - remove it. In this case you may need two copies of the document - one for privileged use and one for general distribution. It is pretty easy to get tools that recover any content, even secured, in PDFs.

 

[Han Solo]

Thanks

It seems Redax from www.appligent.com might do the job, but I take your point regarding the best way of removal.

When things go wrong:


http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2434#moreinfo

Cheers

 

[ClubMan]

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