I just downloaded Inkscape and I would like to redact areas in a PDF. How can I do that? Can someone provide step-by-step on how to do this? Thanks in advance to any and all replies and suggestions.
However, if you are redacting material, and it is information which could lead to liabilities. I would recommend following the method that Adobe recommends.
That way even if an error occurred, you can show that you have followed the correct procedure in good faith.
inkinea, thanks for your reply. I followed the link that you included in your reply above, and it looks like I would need to pay $14.00 per month for Adobe DC Pro, which is a program with too many bells and whistles which I don't need. I just want to redact PDF files. Thank you for your concern about liability, but, not being an attorney, I don't believe that I would be redacting that would cause me to be liable. I just want to redact my PII (Personal Identifying Information) from documents that I send. That being said, could you reply with how I can use Inscape to redact PDF files? Thanks and thanks for your replies and your suggestions.
Polygon, thanks for your reply. The information is in a PDF that is currently on the desktop of my computer. Also, mentioned in your reply that a Text-object should be easily selectable and deletable, but I would like to be able to redact information in the PDF and not delete anything from the pages. Thanks again for your reply.
I wonder how this could be possible - I mean you can put black boxes over that part - but it can then be removed by any user. So that´s not an option. What I´d probably do to be 100% safe is to render the pages including the "black-boxes" as PNG and put them back into a PDF container. Every other possibility like Gaussian blur filter will be reconstructable -unless it´s not rendered into a bitmap.
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I just downloaded Inkscape and I would like to redact areas in a PDF. How can I do that? Can someone provide step-by-step on how to do this? Thanks in advance to any and all replies and suggestions.
It's possible to do these things in Inkscape.
However, if you are redacting material, and it is information which could lead to liabilities. I would recommend following the method that Adobe recommends.
That way even if an error occurred, you can show that you have followed the correct procedure in good faith.
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/removing-sensitive-content-pdfs.html
inkinea, thanks for your reply. I followed the link that you included in your reply above, and it looks like I would need to pay $14.00 per month for Adobe DC Pro, which is a program with too many bells and whistles which I don't need. I just want to redact PDF files. Thank you for your concern about liability, but, not being an attorney, I don't believe that I would be redacting that would cause me to be liable. I just want to redact my PII (Personal Identifying Information) from documents that I send. That being said, could you reply with how I can use Inscape to redact PDF files? Thanks and thanks for your replies and your suggestions.
Where are these informations are stored? In Meta-Data or Text-object which easily should be selectable and deletable.
Polygon, thanks for your reply. The information is in a PDF that is currently on the desktop of my computer. Also, mentioned in your reply that a Text-object should be easily selectable and deletable, but I would like to be able to redact information in the PDF and not delete anything from the pages. Thanks again for your reply.
I wonder how this could be possible - I mean you can put black boxes over that part - but it can then be removed by any user. So that´s not an option. What I´d probably do to be 100% safe is to render the pages including the "black-boxes" as PNG and put them back into a PDF container. Every other possibility like Gaussian blur filter will be reconstructable -unless it´s not rendered into a bitmap.