Protecting a PDF generated in OOo

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 8 17:54:22 UTC 2006


On 8/7/06, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> > 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: are you also referring to pdftk?

Paul




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