Lee D, post: 377221, member: 7971 wrote: Don't even need Photoshop... easily enough done with Acrobat.
I'll bet that if he had exported his pdf as a tiff and then reconverted to pdf you wouldn't have been able to remove the disclaimer quite as easily. :>
Lee D, post: 377221, member: 7971 wrote: Don't even need Photoshop... easily enough done with Acrobat.
Wow!! That was educational. I started looking at how you accomplished that and realized that the flatten routine I have in Acrobat doesn't do what I thought. I thought it was creating a pdf that was basically the equivalent of a scanned document but in reality it leaves most stuff editable if you know where to look. Even after re-frying (printing a pdf to the Adobe printer) individual letters and elements can be deleted or edited in a lot of cases.
Back to the drawing board. I'll be password protecting to restrict editing in the short term and looking for a more secure method for the future. Anyone else have any methods they'd like to put to the testing committee?
Kent McMillan, post: 377238, member: 3 wrote: I'll bet that if he had exported his pdf as a tiff and then reconverted to pdf you wouldn't have been able to remove the disclaimer quite as easily. :>
This is quite probably true... if cows had wings, they could quite probably fly as well.
Jim in AZ, post: 377225, member: 249 wrote: Stephen - just curious, why do you seal a Preliminary drawing? We use exactly the same stamp, but I never seal a Preliminary drawing...
Our Rules of Professional Conduct require the following:
The seal and signature of the registrant and the date of signing shall be placed on all land
surveys, reports, plats, drawings, plans, and calculations whenever presented to a client or
any public agency to certify that the work thereon was done by the registrant or under the
responsible charge of the registrant. Working drawings or preliminary documents are not
required to have a seal and signature if the working drawing or preliminary document
contains a statement in large bold letters to the effect ÛÏPRELIMINARY, NOT FOR
CONSTRUCTION, RECORDING PURPOSES, OR IMPLEMENTATION.Û The size of the
seal shall be two inches in diameter in all cases and on all documentation requiring the
registrantÛªs seal, regardless of the size of the document.
I'm sitting on the fence. :snarky: I put my seal on maps submitted for review to planning commissions, engineering departments, etc because it makes them happy and I can see how the above could be interpreted to say that it is required. I put the Preliminary stamp over my seal to put everyone on notice that it is not the final version of the map and to hopefully keep people from doing stupid stuff in my name.
