I'm not overly paranoid about the security of these documents, If
people want to get their hands on an editable form of the manual and
are willing to spend money on OCR software to do it, then good for
them. I just don't want to make it so easy to do.
I've run into instances in the past (another industry) where I wrote
safety manuals for a company, and it took about 2 weeks before I
found instances of competitor's manuals who had clearly copied /
pasted my own work straight into their own manuals.
This may not sound like a huge deal, but the company I worked for
spent $$$ getting my work checked by consultants in the workplace
safety and Occupational Health and Safety Industry, and I spent
hundreds of hours revising these safety manuals as per their
recommendations.
Having competitors copy and paste the end product into their own
manuals angered me slightly...
So, I just want a way to provide PDF manuals to people, without the
possibility of them copying and pasting the contents of my manuals.
Any Ideas,
Tom
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On 30/11/2005, at 12:27 PM, Phil M wrote:
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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