[Sigia-l] Delivering documents for viewing only (no printing, no saving)

[Cho, Jason]

PDF has the capability to secure documents against printing or editing
contents (including copy/paste). You can also require a password to open
the document, and even permit low resolution but not high resolution
printing in newer versions.

Now, it could not be called unbreakable-- a web search on PDF password
recovery is instructive-- but should suffice to discourage the average
business user. Also, while you cannot save a secured document from
within Acrobat, there is nothing to prevent the user from making copies
of the file in the operating system.

-Jason Cho
jcho at icmarc.org