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S1gnMast3r
S1gnMast3r
Inspiring
November 9, 2021
Question

PDF Restrictions

  • November 9, 2021
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In our organization, we have touch screen digital signage to display committee agendas in PDF form. These agendas are for viewing only, so we want to disable the bookmarks, toolbar, and any other tools that allow the public to backtrack from the software and use it for other purposes.

It has been an ongoing issue for several months with little or no solutions. Is there a way to accomplish this through the reader? (our software is Acrobat Reader DC) 

 

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S1gnMast3r
S1gnMast3rAuthor
Inspiring
November 17, 2021

Working with my network people but so far none of the suggestions have fixed the issue. We are still searching for options.

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Test Screen Name
Legend
November 11, 2021

My feeling: you shouldn't be looking inside Reader for this (though Reader will honour PDF security, it cannot protect against Save/Save As abuse). You should simply have all the public facing files as write-protected, and in write-protected directories (BOTH are vital). This is normal Windows security.

Amal.
Amal.
Legend
November 11, 2021

Hi there

 

Hope you are doing well and sorry to hear that. Please go through the help page https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/PrefRef/Windows/lockable.html and see if that works for you.

 

Regards

Amal

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