#Copysafe pdf protector full how to
#Copysafe pdf protector full verification

I personally do believe that if you are upfront and warn people (students or lecturers) they will mostly try to do the right thing. In both cases I've asked Lecturers trying to abide by Copyright requirements in this fashion that they add a notice for their students near the resource that explains due to the author's copyright they do not have permission to replicate or print the resource. I've added warnings for lecturers that Firefox (and I couldn't get Safari on iPad to either) ignore the setting but it is respected by Chrome and IE.įor the SWF I've put big warnings about accessibility and the fact no Apple device will display them.

#Copysafe pdf protector full how to

downloadable free utility I have also added instructions on how to use Adobe Acrobat to protect a PDF from printing as if Firefox decided to honour it, it would be a more accessible solution.I have added help to our server and suggested two options to Lecturers that they may use for converting to SWF: While the resulting pdf file I got from pdf-printing this swf wasn't exactly like the original (each page was printed twice), it actually is a usable file.

I just uploaded a 7zip file with a small swf inside.

Regarding the small web format files, they can be printed just as well, so you actually would have to go through some more advanced way of converting to swf to make it a bit more complicated for the user to print them.

#Copysafe pdf protector full verification

It sure was very high-tech stuff for the time, unfortunately, it didn't work, people simply modified the code to skip the verification process. I still can remember the case of a software vendor that marked with a laser beam some sectors of their software disks (3½-inch floppy disks) the idea was that the software had some advanced routines to detect them, and so, if someone were to copy the software this method would render the copy useless. I've been in the IT area all my life, and while I understand the reasoning behind, this 'protecting info' effort has been a worthless struggle. Who would have imagined this? Really surprising! I just searched a bit: