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"We can't allow things that are inaccurate to stand." — The Word of Our Dan, February 19, 2008.

Friday, September 14, 2007

Why does an open and transparent government lock its PDFs so you can't clip and past text from them?

At 5:48 PM, September 14, 2007 , Edward Hollett said...: Must be you.

The rest of us can cut and past away.

Check the security permissions on the document. it isn't closed at all.
At 1:42 AM, September 15, 2007 , WJM said...: At some point during the day, that changed. Originally the security settings wouldn't even let you clip text-as-image, let alone raw text, and those settings were in place for some hours this afternoon.

It's a frequent problem with the Openness Government's web documents, in fact. Sometimes, if you complain, they will unlock them. That's Openness. I guess.