Disabling drawing markups

[AlephArgo]

Dear Sirs

I need to disable the use of Drawing Markups in the Adobe reader 11 installation in my company.

The issue

Our company manages confidential documents and payments requests that can be in PDF format, among other way of Handling them.

We made an assessment to understand what kind of internal fraud can be done and what countermeasures we can implement.

We found many remedies and solutions to our issues, most of them require time, effort and money, and we're gonna start a project.

At present we just need a way to forbid a user to put text on a PDF in order to forge its content and print is as another PDF.

Is it there any method to disable drawing markups?

Is it there any other consequences in disabling that feature?

Thanks in advance for your help

Regards

stefano

[try67]

I think this is something that needs to be done at the file-level, not the application-level. You can probably disable the Comment toolbar using some kind of registry tweak, but there are other ways to add comments and I don't think you can disable all of them (using the right-click menu, for example).

I would recommend doing it at that file-level instead. You can apply a security policy to your files that prevents them from being edited in any way, including adding comments. Also, if your users have Reader they won't have a PDF printer (not from Adobe, any way), so you don't need to worry about them generating a new PDF file from the original. If they have a different PDF printer just uninstall it.

[AlephArgo]

Thanks try67 for your response.

UNfortunately, the PDF printer cannot be disabled, because it's needed for several other purposes.

PDF files can be made inside the company, but they can also arrive from the outside, meaning there's no way to be coherent with PDF properties.

In the end, I guess there's the need to create a Group Policy to tweak the registry, but I didn't find how to do it yet.

Thanks again