[Web4lib] PDF restrictions

[Andrew Hankinson]

Is there a particular reason you'd like to share that requires you to
have this restriction?  My imagination is wandering with visions of
super-secret 'eyes only' messages being sent through e-mail.

Andrew

On 4/27/07, Leo Robert Klein <leo at leoklein.com> wrote:
> Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Linda_M.Schwartz at lvh.com wrote:
> >
> >> I am new to Acrobat 8.0 -- is there a way to create a pdf that could be
> >> offered via email and/or via web that could be printed but not saved by the
> >> end user?
> >
> > No. Even if a PDF could not be saved, the email that contains it could be
> > saved. And a user could intercept the printing of it in many ways.
> >
>
> Exactly.  The limitations you can build into the PDF file itself is to
> password protect it and to keep people from altering it.
>
> LEO
>
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