[plug] acrobat reader and printing

Steve Grasso steveg at calm.wa.gov.au
Wed Sep 6 12:20:25 WST 2000


On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Christian wrote:
[snip]
> Either way, I believe that password
> protecting a PDF protects you from *modifying* it, not from actually
> viewing it.

One of the features of Acrobat Distiller 4, is that an author may lock
PDF files which may only be unlocked by provision of a registration
key/password/number etc. I guess this is to facilitate electronic distribution
of salable publications.

Regards,
Steve



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