Hi Carol,
as I and Shmuel Wolfson pointed out: The password "security" is not
secure at all.
I apologize, but your clients require something that cannot be achieved.
About the certificate:
Given an original PDF with certificate, any later change would be
displayed -- so any reader could s
We avoid PDFs for our subscription publications. We produced a reader that
is available as an on-line product or a standalone Windows program (CD, USB
Stick, or Download) that provides subscription licenses to be purchased for
the publications in the library. We can also control expiration dates,
At 11:00 AM 3/4/2015, you wrote:
We are using the certificate security for our manuals instead, which
will make sure that any unauthorized change could be detected.
Heiko, from the little I know about PDF certificate security, you
must be able to identify every user of the PDF. My clients sel
Actually there is a free one called Freeware PDF Unlocker that works
most of the time and A-PDF Restrictions Remover which is even better
for only $10.
--
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
On 04-Mar-15 3:31 PM, Heiko Haida
wrote:
Hi all,
some time ago I bought the PDF Password Remover (-->
http://www.verypdf.com/app/pdf-password-remover/index.html)for legal
purposes.
The tool simply wipes away the password in a second and costs only 30 $.
So, forget about password security to be any kind of obstacle.
We are using t
This is what we allow and disallow:
Printing: Allowed
Changing the Document: Not Allowed
Document Assembly: Not Allowed
Content Copying or Extraction: Allowed
Content Extraction for Accessibility: Allowed
Commenting: Not A
We password-protect them. We allow almost everything except making
changes to the PDF, extracting, printing etc is OK.
The reason we do it is to maximise the odds that the user and Support
are looking at the same text when they call Support. We have no concerns
over the texts being copied etc.
In the financial industry we are under requirements from the CFPB to provide
authorized documents to our internal users. One part of that is access to
secured online docs. We want the authorized version to be used and that is only
possible from a single online access point, ensuring that the lat
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Subject: secured PDFs
We deliver user guides (software and hardware) to customers via
password-protected pdfs, loaded onto serv
Subject: Re: secured PDFs
It's more a matter of our verbage and/or images being copied and used in the
documentation by competitors.
As a tech writer for two world-known heavy equipment companies over the past 17
years, I know first-hand that it is not uncommon for former technician
ly
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In addition to hard-copies of our manuals included in
aware of any plagiarism or other unauthorized use of our
stuff. At least not yet.
-- Ken in Atlanta
On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 3:33 PM, "tom.beiswen...@emhartglass.com"
wrote:
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>We used to deliver user guides as secured PDFs; however, the security settings
>in A
tnote on every page too. That
is a requirement of our NDA, and our legal folks re-iterate that to people
often. :)
Z
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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Johnson, Joyce
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 12:12 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.co
We used to deliver user guides as secured PDFs; however, the security
settings in Acrobat 9 never fully suited our needs. We have since upgraded
to Acrobat 12, but I haven't checked if the settings are any better. That
said, securing the documents ended up being more pain than it was
- please only print this if you have
to!
From: "Johnson, Joyce"
To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com"
Date: 03/03/2015 03:14 PM
Subje
We deliver user guides (software and hardware) to customers via
password-protected pdfs, loaded onto servers and also posted on our customer
web portal.
I'm wondering how members of this group deliver customer-facing documents. Do
you use pdfs? If so, do you secure those pdfs? If you secure th
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