Hi, my team and I are facing a scenario that we are a bit puzzled by. I am sure there is a simple answer that we just are not seeing.
We use Acrobat Pro 9 to create documents that are of a sensitive nature (i.e. financial information). As part of our workflow we want to be able to hand-off those documents to a third party system which will extract the pages from the document for another workflow handled in that system. The issue is that our company's policy is fine with allowing the third party system to extract the pages BUT at no time do they want the document otherwise exposed. Specifically the company is saying "sure, go ahead and enable Page Extraction for entire document" BUT "otherwise the document has to be locked down".
I don't see how this is possible or am I just not seeing an obvious setting with respect to page extraction?
Thanks in advance for your help.
However it depends what you mean by "extract". If the PDF has no interactive elements, you can set the document security with all changes blocked but with high-res printing allowed, then your recipient can just print the page(s) they want using Acrobat Distiller as the printer - resulting in a new PDF with those page(s) in.
Of course that kills any dynamic content (links, scripts, videos etc.) and they need Acrobat or some other PDF print driver.