Control how far your document can wander by making it difficult to copy.
A large document represents a great deal of work, and PDF is a good way to distribute large documents. Sometimes, it is too good. Perhaps your readers are paying customers, and you don't want them to make copies for their friends. Perhaps you want people to read your work only from your web site, not from a downloaded copy. These kinds of controls go beyond standard PDF security.
Copying and sharing print editions of your document would be too much trouble for most readers. Your price for this security is the cost and trouble of production and shipping. However, readers might prefer a print edition, in which case you are also adding value to your work. Print editions are vulnerable to being converted to unsecured PDF by scanning and OCR.
A large document represents a great deal of work, and PDF is a good way to distribute large documents. Sometimes, it is too good. Perhaps your readers are paying customers, and you don't want them to make copies for their friends. Perhaps you want people to read your work only from your web site, not from a downloaded copy. These kinds of controls go beyond standard PDF security.
Copying and sharing print editions of your document would be too much trouble for most readers. Your price for this security is the cost and trouble of production and shipping. However, readers might prefer a print edition, in which case you are also adding value to your work. Print editions are vulnerable to being converted to unsecured PDF by scanning and OCR.
2 comments:
Hello,
This is really interesting take on the concept. PDF copy protection is one of the aspects of PDF security and PDF digital rights management and is the process of applying copy protection controls to PDF documents. Thanks a lot!
I really like the way you put stress on this topic. PDF copy protection is very important concept of PDF security. The printable documents are popular in customers. I will surely consider your points. Thanks for this information.
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