[Hidden-tech] Non-printable PDF

[Bruce Hooke]

Yes, at least in my copy of Adobe Acrobat professional it is possible to
require a password to print a document. This is set in the document
properties (on the file menu) under security. The one caveat is that if
someone has Photoshop they could open the document in Photoshop and I'd bet
that Photoshop would not prevent them from printing it. It certainly would
not prevent them from copy and pasting the document contents into a new
Photoshop image and printing it there. They might well also be able to open
the document in Adobe Illustrator and do the same thing and print it that
way. So, no solution is going to be 100%. For that matter they could simply
open the document in Adobe Acrobat Reader and copy and paste the text from
there into a Word document and print that, but it would be a lot more work
to get to a printed copy that way.
 
You could also use Adobe LiveCycle Designer, which is what you use to make
PDF forms someone can fill out. In LiveCycle you can make elements created
in LiveCycle visible only on-screen (not printed). So, that would also do
the trick (and potentially really puzzle someone when they just get blank
pages when they try to print the document). But if the document is at all
long it could get rather laborious to create the whole document in
LiveCycle.
 
I hope that helps.
 
Bruce

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[mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Fred
Levine
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 3:30 PM
To: Hidden-Tech
Subject: [Hidden-tech] Non-printable PDF


Does anyone know if there's a way to create a non-printable PDF file? I've
never heard of it, but I have a client who says he has and wants one.

Thanks for any and all suggestions.

Fred 
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Publishing Made Personal

Fred Levine
493 S. Pleasant St.
Amherst MA 01002
413.230.3943
smallbatchbooks.com

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