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Re: [OT] PDF text protection for OS X

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Subject: Re: [OT] PDF text protection for OS X
From: Phil M <phil at mobleybros dot com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:27:04 -0800
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On Nov 29, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Tom Benson wrote:

May not be the right place to ask, but I'm looking for a solution (OS X) to protect the text in my PDF manuals that I supply with my products.

I only want to stop people from copying text &Images out of the file, I'm happy to let them print it etc.

If you can print it, you can extract it. Even if printing is disabled, a user could still take screen shots of the pages in question.

If you describe more of what you are doing, maybe we can offer alternatives...

For example if you are distributing icons and you want to protect the images you can make a low-resolution watermarked version that is available for anyone to read. Then for the paying customers, you can set up password-protected high-resolution PDFs without the watermark. It still doesn't protect the images from the stubborn, but it should help reduce problems.

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