brian m. carlson wrote:
Page Extraction: Not Allowed
Commenting: Allowed
Printing: High Resolution
Changing the document: Not Allowed
As a practical matter, these settings are ignored (or can be
ignored) by
many non-Adobe viewers. Therefore, setting them is merely an
inconvenience that irritates your viewers, not an effective control
mechanism. I strongly recommend that you omit them.
Agreed. There have been a couple of occasions at work where a
marketing guy came by and asked me if I could "get the Word document
out of this PDF." The person in question quit, deleted the source
documents, and locked the PDF. I was able to unlock it with very
little effort and recover the text.
I've said on a number of occasions, PDF "security" is akin to leaving
the door unlocked and putting up a "Keep Out" sign. It's easily
ignored if you have a reason.
Having said that, the OP could set the "security" bits in Ghostscript
while creating the PDF. See the GhostScript "Ps2pdf.htm" page and the
PDF reference found at:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf
-- Larry
