On 30/11/2005, at 12:53 PM, Ryan Dary wrote:
Doesn't the "host" app that is displaying the PDF have to "obey"
these settings? What I mean is that if it is still unencrypted
text, couldn't it easily be extracted? These security settings
seem like ways to keep the "regular" people from getting at the
data, but it seems like it wouldn't take too much work to get at it.
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correct, and I would guess, although can't be sure, that complying
with security settings is probably a requirement of the PDF standard.
It's like anything, if someone's determined to 'crack' it they will,
but for the average joe the inbuilt settings present a reasonable
offering
So if you take this document and print it to PDF, will the new PDF
obey these settings? If not, then you just quickly converted it
into an unsecured PDF.. perhaps I'm missing something.
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Well, on Tiger it won't allow you to print to PDF even with printing
allowed - can't say for other OS's
cheers
kim
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