Secure PDF Completely Without Password

How do I secure a PDF document from only Viewing and printing. I do not want to allow copy.paste, convert to Word or anything else. I do not want the user experience to promt for a password. They should be able to open the PDF document, view the pages, and then be able to print. Thanks.

Secure PDF Completely Without Password

The only time it will ask for a password upon opening is if you set an open password. You can do exactly what you want in File%26gt;Properties%26gt;Security. The only time they will be asked for a password is if they try and do somethig that isn't allowed.

Secure PDF Completely Without Password

Go to security and select password security. Just do not check the box to require a password to open the file. Be aware that this security is not perfect by any means and is ignored by some viewers.

You can do this, as others note, from within Acrobat. I regularly receive PDF's that I can't print or copy, from a client who accidentally sends me those instead of the printable ones.?And it works - to a degree.

I have two choices: email the client and ask for the unprotected version, or, use one of the many free or very inexpensive protecion removal utilities. The first time I had this choice, I had to find the utility; between the moment I realized I couldn't print to the time I'd found a utility and stripped out the protection?perhaps ten minutes elapsed.

What I'm saying is that the Adobe protection, on the versions I've seen, isn't very robust and will only deter people who are not very computer literate.

So, this leads to a piggybacked question:?Is there a way to really apply these protections?

What about Adobe's new Protect A PDF File Service - does it resist these common restriction-removal processes?

Thanks,

Patrick Keenan

P Keenan wrote:

So, this leads to a piggybacked question:?Is there a way to really apply these protections?

Thanks,

Patrick Keenan

~Graffiti wrote:

%26gt;%26gt;Yes. By using a very expensive digital rights management solution.

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I accept that this would be necessary. Can you name one such solution?

Whether the solution is economically justifiable or not, we would like to know what is required to genuinely protect the PDFs.

thanks,

-pk

P Keenan wrote:

~Graffiti wrote:

%26gt;%26gt;Yes. By using a very expensive digital rights management solution.

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I accept that this would be necessary. Can you name one such solution?

Whether the solution is economically justifiable or not, we would like to know what is required to genuinely protect the PDFs.

thanks,

-pk

~Graffit wrote:

%26gt; Please be sure to be sitting down when you talk to their representative.

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Thanks for the link and the warning!.?

I'll try to get a sample document prepared with such a system and see how the usual tools respond. While the DRM system may not be affordable, management wants to know...

Thanks again.

Patrick Keenan