Thus, suppose that I download/receive a PDF file that has been secured to restrict editing, but with the allowed changes set to something like "Commenting, filling form fields, and signing existing signature fields", but without "Enable copying of text, images and other content". Thus resulting in specific permissions such as the following (a real example):
- Printing: High resolution
- Changing the document: Not allowed
- Document assembly: Not allowed
- Content copying: Not allowed
- Content copying for accessibility: Allowed
- Page extraction: Not allowed
- Commenting: Allowed
- Form field filling: Allowed
- Signing: Allowed
- Creation of template pages: Allowed
- add a new comment (e.g., Text Box, Typewriter, or Callout),
- edit a Comment that I have previously added,
- edit a Comment that someone else has previously added, and
- delete a Comment;
To emphasise this, I can be midway through creating my own comment — I can type text in, and I can paste text (copied from some other document or/and application) into the comment — but while doing this I cannot copy any of that text. I cannot even copy the text that I have just typed.
Suppose I had typed two sentences into the comment, and decided to reorder them. I would have to delete one and retype it from scratch!
I suppose the application's behaviour is literally in keeping with the security setting that disallows copying of "content".
But nevertheless it does seem kind of silly when applied to fully editable comments, as in the above context.
Is this the intended behaviour?
And is it behaviour mandated by the/a PDF standard, or is it a choice of Tracker Software?
Note: it seems that Comments are treated differently from "content" in another way, because I can duplicate a comment object in its entirety!
Note: I can't do that by separate Copy and Paste operations, because I am unable to Copy the comment object. However, I can press <Ctrl> while left-mouse-button dragging the comment object to duplicate it within the same document.
Is there any analogous workaround to duplicate selected text within a comment inside the same document/comment?