PDF Restrictions

[bully712]

This might be a tough one. I've never heard of anything like this, so I'm wondering if anyone knows any solutions to this problem.

 

The situation:

 

An employee at work is burning PDF images of Cad drawings to a cd to be distributed. One of the senior principals is suggesting that the prints have restrictions as listed below:

 

1. They want to restrict the print scale to 100%. They don't want them to open up the drawings and print them at a different scale.

 

2. They don't want them to copy or save the drawings to their hard drives.

 

I honestly do not think this is possible. Does anyone have a clue to what we can do?

 

Thanks

[Ray]

Send hard copies!

 

Seriously, if you open the pdfs in Adobe Acrobat (not Reader) then you can set some security restrictions, but I can't tell you off hand if all of your principal's restrictions are possible.

[bully712]

Send hard copies!

 

 

That's exactly what I said. She's attempting to add securities in Acrobat as we speak. I guess there is only so much you can do electronically.

 

Thanks

[Jeff Mottle]

As far as I know you can not restrict Zoom in a PDF file but you can restrict the following:

 

- No Printing

- No changing the document

- No content copying or extraction, disable accessibility

- No adding or changing comments and form fields

 

You can set the open zoom level, but I don't think stop if from zooming in.

[AJLynn]

And don't trust the PDF security if it's important. (Trust me.)

[Buttman]

How do u convert into PDF files from CAD? Why am I asking cuz I am struggling to produce crystal clear cad drawings into photoshop file. I just get headaches for this.

[cyberarchi]

buttman, use cutepdf or pdffactory or adobe acrobot professional, they all use printer port and cutepdf is free i guess.

[Buttman]

I've check CutePDF and it's free to download but which one? Cutewriter?