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I have Adobe Acrobat Pro. My own redactions of files work normally.
But I sent a copy of my redacted file to someone else, who added a few additional redactions.
When that person sent the file back to me, the new redactions were not "permanent." When I tried to print
the file, even to a PDF, the new redactions were not present. I could click on the added redactions and instantly move or remove them.
Please let me know how I can deal with this, to make the new redactions permanent.
Thanks a lot!
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Use the redaction tool in Acrobat Pro.
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They either didn't apply them, or didn't use the Redaction tool, but something else to "cover up" the text, thinking it's the same (it's not, as you saw).
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Thanks, I think this must the issue. The other person probably used something other than the redaction tool. But I'm surprised that their changes appeared the same as a redaction on the screen but did not appear when I printed to PDF.
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It's not surprising, since what they did is not really redacting the information, just covering it up (probably with something like a field or a comment), and that can be made visible on screen but not in a print-out. It's also trivial to remove this "cover" entirely.
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thanks again. the way I had to deal with this, in a hurry, was to just screenshot all the new pseudo-redacted edits before sending the file to where it had to go.