PDF DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT FEATURES

• Complete and secure control over PDF document usage - viewing, printing (+ number of times), copying, modifying, saving, screen grabbing, etc.
   
• Automatically prevents document copying, modifying and saving
   
• Automatically prevents use of Windows print screen and 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 secure 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, or any combination.
   
• Decide whether users must view your documents online, offline, or whether they must connect to the licensing server every n days, after n days and then never again, or whenever an Internet connection is available.  For extra flexibility you can even specify a grace period for connection times.
   
• Instant user and document revocation - terminate access to a protected PDF document instantly
   
• Individual publication expiry on a user basis for simple subscription management
   
• Limit the number of document views and/or prints, and instantly terminate access once this number is reached
   
• Enforce document retention periods and policies
  
  
• Ability to change print and view controls even after publication.  Documents can be protected without printing allowed 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)
  

• See when users have registered for your service, and from where
   
• Log document views (opens) and prints
   
• Log system activity (logons, logoffs, users/documents added, deleted, etc.)
   
• 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).
  

• Enforce your own house style and appearance by ensuring that documents may only be seen in the format you have decided
   
• Customizable unauthorized use and expiry messages (or redirect users to a URL). You can choose how many days before a document expires that the document expiry message (or redirection to a URL) is displayed, giving users ample time to renew their subscriptions, for instance.
   
• Choice of displaying (and specifying how long it is displayed) or not a document splash screen
   
• Watermarks - display custom and dynamic text and images on screen and printouts
  
  
• Display an optional welcome message (web page) when a user first opens a document/ebook
   
• Optionally brand the Viewer window with your company logo - see Publisher Own Branding.

• Administration system designed for large numbers of users, documents and publications
   
• 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
   
• Enhanced search and sort filters for quick, advanced, and detailed lookups
   
• Unique concept of publications for simpler PDF document distribution and access management
   
• Offline / online access management - control how long a user can access your secure PDF documents offline
   
• Complete off-line protection - no need for users to continue to connect to the Internet to view existing protected PDF documents
   
• Real-time web based licensing control and transparent customer 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
   
• PDF Command line encryption utility for multiple processing of PDF files, plus batch automation (no manual input required)*
   
• Ecommerce interface for complete integration with your existing e-commerce system (helps provide 24x7 delivery of your protected PDF documents)*
   
• Completely managed system (fully hosted by us) or hosted on your own server*
   
• Data import and export for simple customer and document management
   
• Customizable output folder and document descriptions
     
• Choice of registration emails being sent on a global or individual user basis and license files as either file attachments or as embedded links
  

• Bullet proof protection - public key technology and US Government strength encryption (AES 256 bit), strong PDF DRM controls
   
• No passwords for you to send, or for users to enter, manage, forget, or pass on to others
   
• No insecure plug-ins or weak implementations - see PDF DRM Technical Information
   
• Persistent end-to-end protection throughout your document life-cycle
   
• Complete control over PDF document security inside or outside the firewall, online and offline
  
  
• Only you host and distribute your PDF documents - they remain under your control at all times and are never uploaded to LockLizard
  
  
• PDF Watermarks - display dynamic system variables and user information on your viewed and/or printed documents to reduce piracy and enforce accountability
  
  
• Secure PDF files are locked to authorized computers ensuring they cannot be shared
   
• Restrict registration of licenses to a specific IP address or range of IP addresses
  

Additional PDF DRM Security Features

• FREE multi-lingual secure PDF viewer software (nothing for users to purchase)
   
• Ensure users are always using the latest viewer software by enforcing updates
   
• Exportable user, document, and publication records
   
• System backup and restore
   
• Customizable record display
   
• Additional document information (notes, descriptions, all PDF DRM protection settings)
   
• Editable customer and document records and descriptions
   
• No limit to the number of PDF files you can protect or the number of users that can view your protected PDF documents
  
  
  * Additional charges apply for e-commerce integration, command line utility and hosting on your own server.
  
  
  

PDF DRM security features in-depth