Protecting a PDF generated in OOo

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Aug 7 21:55:02 UTC 2006


PFJ <paul <at> all-the-johnsons.co.uk> writes:
> Is there a way that I can apply restrictions on a PDF generated in OOo
> so that the recipient is unable to print etc?
> 
> I know I can digitally sign PDFs, but I have a specific reason for not
> allowing it to print.

There are quite a few PDF viewers/processors which can bypass these 
restrictions (some of them can be found in Fedora itself ;-) ), so I'd not 
count on these restrictions to really work as advertised. As with any DRM, 
really...

        Kevin Kofler




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