About Glen Demers Expertise I can answer questions about creating pdf's for print.
Experience I've been working in the prepress industry for 25 years and am currently a prepress technician for Best Printing Online
I've worked with Acrobat since 1994 and am familiar with the current version.
Education/Credentials Some college training in printing and have attended numerous seminars.
Question "1: I recently received an email attachment:
a PDF file created by WordPro and sent to me via official office mail using Hypertext Transfer Protocol with Privacy which I opened in HTML format on the Internet
2: I proceeded to:
Paste two paragraphs into a private email on my Microsoft Outlook account (home computer w/Verizon wireless). I forwarded it for viewing and comments to a friend and when it returned noticed a blue line on the left side of the transferred information.
3: I right clicked on it and under "view source" a notebook page opened to reveal Smarttags.
So my husband says it's only so that my email could read the PDF text and transfer it but I disagree. I believe the people that created the source document could track that I sent a part of their document to a third party and can now read my personal comments as well as my friends. Am I being paranoid? Please advise."
Answer Hi Rita,
Microsoft Outlook creates the smarttag whenever text or a graphic is pasted into a document. It gives you some formatting options, see Outlook help about the paste panel.
Once you copy and paste text from one document to another there is no way to trace the data, the paragraphs were temporarily stored on your computer then copied to the e-mail, the stored data was erased the next time you did a copy command.
I hope this puts your mind at ease,
Glen Demers
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
www.bestprintingonline.com
For more Acrobat tips please visit our help pages <a href="http://www.bestprintingonline.com/submitting-pdf.htm">here</a>
