I would just say image-based or text-based. Sorry if you wanted something more hifalutin. There is another level of granularity though, inasmuch as you can publish a text-based PDF that attempts to prevent copy/paste. Like websites with their javascript hacks, it isn't really secure, it just instructs Acrobat Reader not to enable that feature. --Joe On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:21 PM, don warner saklad <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > What's the descriptive technical terminology information professionals > use to distinguish the kind of pdf that can't be used with cut paste, > an image of the page of an article versus the format in pdf where it's > not an image of a page and can be used with the cut paste > mechanism?... What is the first example called properly in the > information technology industry technical terms?... What's the second > example called in the descriptive technical language? >