Lock specific image in PDF

[santhoshr29800103]

Hi,

One of our clients requested that we apply restrictions on particular images within an ebook PDF document so that, in the event of copyright difficulties, third-party users cannot download the material from websites. Is it possible to use Adobe Acrobat Professional to activate limits on a particular image?

Thanks,

Santhosh

[JR Boulay · Accepted solution]

This is not possible with any software.

You cannot prevent a user from taking a screenshot.

[MikelKlink]

Please clarify.

Usually you enforce that third-party users cannot download the material from websites by configuring those websites accordingly. Which role do you expect Acrobat to have in that? And how does that website tuning relate to images within an ebook?

Furthermore, you tagged your message as related to electronic or digital signatures. How does that relate?

[santhoshr29800103]

Due to copyriight issue some particular figure will not allow users to download it in the website once author publish the ebook PDF in websites. (Example: Fig. 21. Ecclesia, Frieberg Minster) So, this image content may not be distributed in a way that would allow any third party to download, extract or access the Content as a standalone file.

[JR Boulay · Accepted solution]

This is not possible with any software.

You cannot prevent a user from taking a screenshot.

[MikelKlink · Accepted solution]

And even ignoring screen shots for a moment, the format PDF is a published standard, so anyone who can in a regular PDF viewer view a PDF file, can access all its contents however they wish, also to extract them individually.