Copying the PDF document and pasting into a Microsoft Word document allowed all the redacted information to magically appear. This is a great example of metaph

Copying the PDF document and pasting into a Microsoft Word document allowed all the redacted information to magically appear. This is a great example of metaphor failure. If you take a black permanent marker and color over writing on a piece of paper, you're doing a pretty good job of destroying that information. If you draw a black box over some writing in a PDF, you're leaving the data completely intact. If a software product uses a metaphor for some real-world object, anywhere it acts differently from that object will be confusing.