PDF Restriction: Prevent Printing, Copying, & Saving of PDF Documents
PDF DRM – prevent pdf save/saving, print/printing, copy/copying
PDF Document Protection Controls
- Complete and secure control over PDF document usage. Protect PDF documents from unauthorized viewing, printing (or limit printing to a number of times), copying, modifying, saving (prevent pdf save), screen grabbing, etc.
- Automatically prevents document copying, modifying and saving
- Automatically prevents use of Windows print screen and common third party screen grabber applications
- Automatically prevents printing to file, PDF format (Acrobat distiller and other PDF print drivers), common image printers, etc.
- User and document expiry – you decide how long users can view your protected PDF documents. Great for subscription services, and time limited trials/documents.
- Expire documents on a certain date, after a number of days, after a number of views, or after a number of prints
- Individual publication expiry on a user basis for simple subscription management
- Decide whether users must be online to view your protected PDF documents (permanently, every n days, if an Internet connection is available), or whether they can be viewed offline.
- Instant user and document revocation – terminate access to a protected PDF document instantly
- Control the locations (i.e. office only) from where secure PDF documents can be used *
- Limit the number of document views and/or prints, and instantly terminate access once this number is reached
- Enforces document retention periods and policies
- Ability to change print and view controls even after publication. Documents can be protected without printing enabled and prints granted on an individual user basis
- Suspend published documents to enforce document start times, and alter their expiry dates
- Prevent or allow use in thin client and virtual environments (e.g. Citrix)
* Enterprise PDF DRM only
Auditing and Reports
- See when users have registered for your service, and from where
- Log document views (opens) and prints *
- View your 5 most accessed, printed and viewed documents and see who is using them *
- Log system activity – logons, logoffs, users/documents added, deleted, etc.
- Log ecommerce activity – what commands were run, by whom and when
- See when license emails have been delivered, opened, bounced etc.
- Log sub-administrator actions and events *
- Generate user, document, publication, and system activity reports – e.g. list of users that can access document X, list of expired users, documents viewed/printed over the last month and by whom *
* Enterprise PDF DRM only
Company Branding
- Enforce your own house style and appearance by ensuring that documents may only be seen in the format you have decided
- Customizable message text for unauthorized use, and customizable expiry messages/URL *
- Choice of displaying or not a document splash screen
- Watermarks – display custom text and images on screen and printouts
- Display an optional welcome message (web page) when a user first opens a document/ebook *
- Send emails from your own domain name
- Optionally brand the Viewer window with your company logo – see Publisher Own Branding.
* Enterprise PDF DRM only
Ease of Use
- Choice of installation or zero installation Viewers (Web Viewer & Secure USB Viewer) to suit user requirements
- Administration system designed for large numbers of users, documents and publications with enhanced search and sort filters for quick, advanced, and detailed lookups
- Batch changes – apply changes to all your users or multiple users in one go – e.g. grant all users or grant selected users access to a document or publication *
- License transfer – suspend and enable individual licenses. Protected PDF documents can no longer be viewed on computers that have had their license suspended *
- Unique concept of publications for simpler PDF document management
- Offline / online access management – control how long a user can access your protected PDF documents offline
- Complete off-line PDF document protection – no need for users to connect to the Internet to view existing protected PDF documents
- Real-time web based licensing control and transparent user authorization
- 5 minute set up – existing user information can be imported and no configuring of servers is required
- Simple to protect PDF documents (just right-click in Windows Explorer), simple to use, simple to administer
- Multiple processing of PDF files, plus batch automation (no manual input required) with our pdf command line encryption utility **
- Complete integration with your existing e-commerce system to help provide 24×7 delivery of your protected PDF documents with our ecommerce interface **
- Completely managed system (fully hosted by us) or hosted on your own server **
- Data import and export for simple user and document management
- Choice of registration emails being sent on a global or individual user basis and license files as either file attachments or as embedded links
- Control sub-administrators with separate login details, auditing, and access rights *
- Backup and restore system data *
* Enterprise PDF DRM only
** Additional charges apply for e-commerce integration, command line utility and hosting on your own server
PDF Document Protection
- Bullet proof PDF document protection – public key technology and US Government strength encryption (AES), strong PDF DRM controls
- No passwords for you to send, or for users to enter, manage, forget, or pass onto others
- No insecure plug-ins or weak implementations – see Our DRM Technology
- Persistent end-to-end PDF document protection throughout your documents life-cycle
- Complete control over PDF document protection inside or outside the firewall, online and offline
- Only you host and distribute your PDF documents – we never have access to them
- PDF Watermarks – display dynamic system variables and user information on your viewed and/or printed documents to reduce piracy and enforce accountability
- Restrict document use to countries and IP addresses *
- Protected PDF documents are locked to authorized computers ensuring they cannot be shared
* Enterprise PDF DRM only