If you are going to stop document sharing and editing then you have to stop Save As from being used so PDF documents cannot be saved in unprotected formats. The simplest way to do this is to not have the facility available to begin with. Some products use JavaScript to disable the Save As menu item or short-keys, but JavaScript can be easily removed or turned off in a browser environment and so cannot be used securely.
The only documents that can be copied are protected PDF files and they are useless to unauthorized recipients as they need the correct decryption keys to open them. You might want to think again. The way every browser works is by caching information to disk.
And browser environments are possibly the least secure of all because if no software is installed on a device then you have no control over the actual environment so stopping screen grabbing and printing to file drivers is not possible.
See Secure Downloads for additional information on stopping downloads and copying. To stop the browser caching the PDF on the users system, they convert your PDF files to images when you upload them — so the document is no longer a PDF file but consists of just raster images. However, this provides a poor user experience since images are slow to display and print, and features such as search, bookmarks, and annotations are unlikely to be available.
However, if you encrypt a PDF file and the user does not have the decryption key to use it then it does not matter if they can download it.
And if you apply DRM and licensing controls then authorized users those given access will be restricted as to what they can do with downloadable PDF files for example not being able to share them with others.
Many cloud based systems claim to stop PDF forwarding — however users can share their login credentials with others so they have access to your documents anyway. If a system uses document links then there is nothing stopping an authorized user emailing those links to other users along with the login information.
Some systems state that they lock PDF files to email addresses or domains but that just means that you have to login using that email address or any email address that belongs to the domain. It does not stop PDF forwarding since authorized users can still give their login credentials to others. That is also true of 2FA codes which provide little extra protection. A Safeguard protected PDF file can be forwarded and emailed to another user but the recipient will NOT be able to view it unless the document owner has authorized them to use it.
If you are the document publisher, you can email protected PDF files to users knowing that if they fall into the wrong hands they cannot be opened. So if a protected PDF is accidentally forwarded to the wrong person they will not be able to use it. See also stop copying, downloading and emailing.
This is because there are numerous free and paid for PDF password remover programs on the Internet that will remove Adobe Acrobat permissions passwords in seconds. Users can still add comments to PDF files if you allow this option , but PDF content is always protected from editing ensuring that your original content cannot be altered in any way.
In some PDF protection products, if editing is disabled you can still highlight and copy text. Safeguard stops users from copying text and other content within a document — there is no copy paste option available and text cannot be highlighted for selection so it cannot be copied and pasted into other applications.
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This is to my knowledge not scriptable behavior. Most browsers will have their own settings for the behavior of what to do with specific file types on download.
This question has also been answered here: stackoverflow. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. With html5, it is possible now. Set a "download" attr in element. Sarim Sarim 2, 2 2 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. You better go with this solution if it's supported. Here's a way to check if it is if "download" in document. Is there a way one can specify the text for the pdf instead of mentioning file path?
I need to create pdf from a div html but I don't wish to open another window,download should be seemless like in this answer.. As right now August , Browser support seems to be enhanced for this feature, see: w3schools. Note that the download attribute is only supported for same-origin requests.
This is only possible with setting a http response header by the server side code. Apache example.
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