Re: PDF Security

"Mr. Shawn H. Corey" <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:04:40 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.pdfapi2
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Todd Hamilton wrote:
> I would like to restrict permissions on a pdf. 
> Specifically I would like to make printing not
> available.  Is there a way to do this using PDF::API2?

No, permission to read is permission to copy.  Permission to copy is permission to print.  If someone can read your file (not just PDF files), they can print it.  At the worst, they can take screenshots of it and print those.  Find a better way to protect yourself, like copyright.

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Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
  Shawn

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