[PDF-Basics] PDF Security options

[Miller, James]

The program "File Open Author 2.5" has a lot of PDF security features including, "Lock documents to hard disk, CD-ROM, or Web browser (prevents saving of documents offline)".   That sounds to me like the save function is disabled and the PDF could be viewed, but not saved.   I've used this before on a CD-ROM subscription product where the files "expired" (we said they "blowed up" because we're silly like that) and were no longer viewable after 3 months, just in time for the next CD-ROM.  The rub is that there's no Acrobat 6 version yet.  As we sometimes find out, that doesn't necessarily mean it won't work with 6, just that it's not "supported".  Also, I think the whole organization is one guy, but he might have expanded in recent years as we used this program 2 years ago and the CD-ROM product has since gone online.   I deleted the email, but this goes out to the nice lady who didn't want the bad people to save her precious PDFs.   ~James   The opinions expressed are mine.  Could you pass the salt?