>> Yeah, well, if digital printouts have only the same functionality as 
>> real printouts, then they're rather pointless.
> 
> Except I can send a "digital printout" to 50 different people in 5 
> different countries within a few seconds from my desk, try doing that 
> with real printouts :-)

Sure. But you don't need Acrobat for that, just Acrobat Reader. We paid 
a shedload of money for the full Acrobat Professional package on the 
expectation that it would allow us to, you know, *modify* PDF files. :-P

>> The trouble is, then the pages would be bitmap images. That means that 
>> I can manipulate then with IrfanView. On the other hand, it means 
>> they'll either be vastly lower resolution than the original vector 
>> graphics, or they'll be absolutely huge files...
> 
> What's your printer? 600dpi?  Just convert them into bitmaps using that 
> resolution and do your work on it, then save them to PDF again.  It's 
> quite common to work on A4 size at 600dpi on a normal PC these days...

Mmm, A4 at 600dpi. That's going to be a few megapixels...

In the end, I ended up just double-printing the damned thing. Which 
meant I had to print it three times before I figured out the paper path, 
scaled everything so the new headers don't overprint the document 
content, and so on and so forth. All of which would have been *so* much 
easier with some suitable software... but hey, Adobe has our money. Why 
should they give a damn?

> Or, presumably, if you are meant to be modifying these documents, then 
> you can just ask the original author for the original files to modify?  
> That might be easier in the end.

Right. Because BackupExec *totally* has options for customising the 
header and footer on the job logs it prints out. ;-)

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