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vbedi
Registered: Jun 15 2007
Posts: 2

I would like to prevent users from saving a secure copy of the PDF's Is it possible?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
Dimitri
Expert
Registered: Nov 1 2005
Posts: 1389
Hi vbedi,

No, it is not possible to prevent saving a file once it is downloaded, and your file wouldn't be very useful if it couldn't be downloaded and viewed.

There are fairly expensive DRM (Digital Rights Management) solutions that will help protect your information, by not allowing redistribution, copying, setting expiry dates, tracking usage etc., but none of those prevent "saving" that I know of. Here are links to some providers and solutions-

[url=http://www.adobe.com/products/onlineservices/documentcenter/]http://www.adobe.com/products/onlineservices/documentcenter/[/url]
(free trial thru end of 2007)

[url=http://www.fileopen.com/]http://www.fileopen.com/[/url]

[url=http://www.locklizard.com/]http://www.locklizard.com/[/url]

Hope that helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
[url=http://www.windjack.com]www.windjack.com[/url]