How To Disable Ctrl + Shift + S (Save As)

[John.Hooper]

Good Evening,

I have a requirment to allow viewing of a secured PDF file. This PDF has the following document restrictions;

Printing: Not Allowed

Changing The Document: Not Allowed

Document Assembly: Not Allowed

Content Copying: Not Allowed

Content Copying For Accessability: Not Allowed

Page Extraction: Not Allowed

Commenting: Not Allowed

Filling of form fields: Not Allowed

Signing: Not Allowed

Creating of Template Pages: Not Allowed

I have locked down the Adobe Reader menus.

When I launch the PDF Within Adobe Reader and press Ctrl + Shift + S. Is there a way to prevent this from occuring. If not, is there a way to have the Save As box blank and not allow the function to actually save the file.

I was going down the route to disable the Ctrl,  Shift and S keys using Scancode Maps, but that was going to cause more problems in the long term then it is worth.

Any advice is most welcome.

Kind Regards,

John

[Bernd Alheit]

Not possible.

[John.Hooper]

G'day Bernd, thanks so much for your prompt reply. As you suggested it is not possible. Is there any other method you can suggest, other than disabling the Ctrl + Shift + S key combination, that will get me close to the result I am after?

Cheers and thanks in advance

[try67]

What are you trying to achieve, exactly?

[John.Hooper]

Good Morning try67,

Thank you for the interest in this. What I have is Adobe Reader published as a Citrix Published Application on a dedicated server for this role. This instance of Adobe Reader will only ever launch one single PDF.  The PDF is licenced to a certian number of concurrent users. Within Citrix, concurrent users are controlled. I have continued to lock down the instance of Adobe Reader as much as I can, however the last thing to lock down is this Ctrl + Shift + S key combination to prevent any user attempting to save a copy of the PDF.

As mentioned previously I tried using Scancode Maps, but that was going to cause more problems for anyone logging onto the server. Even if I locked out the 'Shift' key alone (or even Ctrl or S alone), should an admin require login to the server with this password containing upper case letters this could end up causing more issues then it is worth.

If I can disable a key combination that would be my golden ticket.

Cheers

[try67]

In order to view a PDF file it has to be saved, either locally or on a network drive, so I don't see this can work. It is possible to hide the Save/Save As menu items, but pressing Ctrl+S or Ctrl+Shift+S, or clicking the Save icon in the toolbar will still work, even if you do that...