PDF RESTRICTION TO PREVENT PRINTING, COPYING, & SAVING OF PDF DOCUMENTS

• 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, 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
   
• Decide whether users must be online to view your protected PDF documents (permanently or just every n days), or whether they can be viewed offline.
   
• Instant user and document revocation - terminate access to a protected PDF document instantly
   
• 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
   
• Prevent or allow use in thin client and virtual environments (e.g. Citrix)
  
  

• Enforce your own house style and appearance by ensuring that documents may only be seen in the format you have decided
   
• Customizable message text and document splash screen
   
• Watermarks - display custom text and images on screen and printouts
   
• Optionally brand the Viewer window with your company logo - see Publisher Own Branding.
  

• 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 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
   
• 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 24x7 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 customer and document management
  

• Bullet proof PDF document 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 onto others
   
• No insecure plug-ins or weak implementations - see Technical Information
   
• 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
  
  
• Protected PDF documents are locked to authorized computers ensuring they cannot be shared
  

Additional PDF Document Protection Features
 

• FREE multi-lingual secure PDF viewer software (nothing for users to purchase)
   
• Auditing - see when users have registered for your service and from where
   
• No limit to the number of PDF documents you can protect or the number of users that view your protected PDF documents
   
  
  * Additional charges apply for e-commerce integration, command line utility and hosting on your own server.
  
  
  

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