PDF for Lawyers: Clean up your PDFs Before Publishing Them

December 13, 2005

Clean up your PDFs Before Publishing Them

Yet another PDF metadata snafu -- this time by the White House! In this article by PDF Zone's Don Fluckinger, we learn that the 38-page Iraq policy document posted as a PDF shows a Duke PoliSci professor as the author. (Ouch!). This story joins last spring's military secret redaction
debacle as an example of why it is important to have at least a basic understanding of your technology.

There are many potentially embarrassing or damaging things that you can include in a PDF. Clean up after yourself. As the old saying goes, "it is a poor workman that blames his tools."

~~ Dave

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