Mapsoft MaskIt 2.1

Mapsoft MaskIt is a useful and reliable plug-in for Adobe Acrobat. MaskIt allows you to mask areas of pages of PDF documents so that anything that would normally display or print in that area will no longer appear. It is particularly useful for removing items such as logos, dirty areas appearing in a PDF file after scanning, confidential information, or headers and footers. Additional items can be added in these masked areas later, such as annotations or text output from either Mapsoft Impress or Mapsoft Impress Pro.

MaskIt can create masks that remove information from either:

Inside a defined area, such as a graphic or logo

Outside an area, for example, to remove headers and footers from a page but leave everything else on the page intact

Masks are easily defined using the Mask tool available from Acrobats main toolbar. Once defined masks can be applied to the current document and/or saved for future use.

When defining masks the following options are available:

Mask Type Controls the type of mask to apply. Two types of mask can be applied, Inside where the area inside the defined area is masked, or Outside where the area outside the defined area is masked

Mask Area Defines the area to be masked

Page Range Specifies those pages to which you wish the mask to apply

Page Spread Specifies the page spread, of pages lying within the specified page range, to which your mask is to be applied