[Hidden-tech] Non-printable PDF

Annamarie Pluhar annamarie at pluharconsulting.com
Mon May 14 07:31:58 EDT 2012


I didn't know about these functions in a PDF - and am glad to know them. 

I'm more curious and wonder about why the client wants a non-printable PDF? There may be excellent reasons for it, but if it's to prevent "theft"  or non-attribution, a watermark/header/footer might be more effective. After all a printed page that sticks around with one's name on it might be more memorable than a link to a website. 

Just saying...  


Annamarie Pluhar

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On May 11, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Bruce Hooke wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I hope that helps.
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> Bruce
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> From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Fred Levine
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> 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.
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> Thanks for any and all suggestions.
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> Fred 
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