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Disable text selection. Have document close when text selection chosen

LuckyLuis
Registered: Apr 6 2008
Posts: 4

I want to be able to disable text selection on my documents. I have often found my text is cut and pasted by clients onto other work. I would like to have the document close when the text selection tool is clicked on.

Anything out there????

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.0, Windows
Dimitri
Expert
Registered: Nov 1 2005
Posts: 1389
Hi LuckyLuis,

Look in File ->Properties and in the Document Properties dialog click the Security tab. In the pulldown for "Security Method" you can set a password for the PDF and choose a variety of Changes Allowed options for the document. If you set this to "None" users won't be able to perform any editing or content extraction. The user will not need the password to open and view the PDF, but you will need it if you ever want to make changes yourself so make a note of it.
This method does not Close the PDF, and there is no method I know of for doing that.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com
LuckyLuis
Registered: Apr 6 2008
Posts: 4
Dimitri,

Thank you for your input. Unfortunately, it is so easy to remove PDF passwords today that I was hoping for something more to protect my work. :)