Load the PDF into acrobat - not Acrobat Reader - and try the text touchup tool. I think V5 has a black lining facility too ... Steve Hudson Word Heretic, Sydney, Australia Tricky stuff with Word or words for you. Email: word_heretic@xxxxxxxxxxxx Products: http://www.geocities.com/word_heretic/products.html Spellbooks: 735 pages of dump left and dropping... The VBA Beginner's Spellbook: For all VBA users. -----Original Message----- From: Deborah Cross Hi All, I have an old PDF that is being used around the place as an exemplar. = The legal department wants us to remove all names and confidential = references but we don't have the source document. Is there any way I can just block out names and the like using images or = something? I have Adobe Acrobat 5.0. ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelist.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************