Microsoft is useless when it comes to questions such as this. It's infuriating. Then apply 'Restricted View' or 'View Only' per library or per folder.
Not fun but it seems to work. Already tried. I am not sure if the people that give these suggestions out in the forums above not you, the links actually test their advice. I created a custom permission level and spent 3 hours individually trying different combinations of permissions. Again, microsoft stated this is a known issue due to the fact that PDFs and other files have no server-side file handlers. There is no way to do this and actually limit downloading.
You can limit downloading for word files all day. Thank you for your suggestions however. And I have found, if you prevent the ability to download a PDfF you can still print it, which circumvents the download restriction as you can print it to another PDF etc etc.
Turning on Information Rights Management does stop the ability to print the PDF, but then you can not read it in the browser as someone else has pointed out above. Products 74 Special Topics 42 Video Hub Most Active Hubs Microsoft Teams. Security, Compliance and Identity. Microsoft Edge Insider. Azure Databases. Project Bonsai. Education Sector. Microsoft Localization.
Microsoft PnP. Healthcare and Life Sciences. Internet of Things IoT. Enabling Remote Work. Small and Medium Business. Humans of IT. Green Tech. MVP Award Program. Video Hub Azure. Microsoft Business. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Legionar 7, 2 2 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 66 66 bronze badges. Browsers' developer tools make it trivial to get at anything sent to the user, and you're not going to stop screen capture programs.
Heck, the user could use their mobile phone to take pictures of the computer screen… — Donal Fellows. Right-click, view page source, get link of image under the transparent image. It's been in Firefox for as long as I can remember. I think I remember it existing in Mozilla Suite back before it got pared down into Firebird, which then became Firefox.
I consider that under 'one of the ways of getting at it that requires digging into the source. I say you can lock it down 'hard' but not 'make it secure. Ultimately you will need to: Create Images for each page Present those to the user on the web via your own interface html, flash etc Keep in mind flash wont work on Apple devices if that's required. Claudio Nastasi Junior 9 9 bronze badges. Mark Redman Mark Redman 23k 19 19 gold badges 88 88 silver badges bronze badges. I believe Chrome has currently removed support for all plugins but Flash and applied a whitelist for which sites are allowed to run Flash I can download this file - it give download and also print options like normal pdf — obaid.
Jonathan Thurft Jonathan Thurft 3, 7 7 gold badges 43 43 silver badges 73 73 bronze badges. If you encrypt the PDF you can control how printable and changeable it is. You haven't mentioned what you're using to build the PDFs so the details are up to you. You might be able to do the same thing with layers Optional Content Groups as well, not sure.
Mark Storer Mark Storer These permissions are ignored by browser-based PDF viewers. Always happy to point out the obvious :. Captian Obvious Captian Obvious 21 1 1 bronze badge. For anyone else like-minded who wanders in off Google, the reason no such solution exists is because, if you have the knowledge to implement it, you also have the knowledge to see less obvious reasons it'll never work. It all traces back to the fundamental problem that, at the theoretical level, crypto is about preventing C from intercepting communication from A to B and it devolves to "security by obscurity" if B and C are the same person and it's well-known that "security by obscurity" is just giving yourself a false sense of security.
In my opinion the other proposed solution is. Shahroze Nawaz Shahroze Nawaz 5 5 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Convert pdf to image. Use image tag to display the image. Disable right click on the image. Foiled again, Batman. Very little information given, e. Regardless, this method is not a guaranteed solution for preventing download of a PDF. ThiagoSilva It's even simpler than that. Firefox is designed around the recognition that it's running on the end-user's computer, not the website developer's.
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No DRM system is fool-proof. Even if screenshots are prevented, users can take photographs of the screen using a camera.
Similarly, if printing is allowed, users can print and scan back in printed documents. You can use different watermarks for viewed and printed documents and both text and image watermarks are supported. PDF watermarks can be displayed behind content so they are less obtrusive to the user and you can choose not to display watermarks on the first page of a document if you have a cover image that you want to leave unmarked. See How to remove a watermark from a PDF.
This is done at the user level or a global level for all users. In this way you can easily restrict all users to viewing protected PDF files from say your office location in the US.
This is particularly useful if users have laptops which they are allowed to take home — locked PDF files can then only be viewed at the office and not when the user is at home or at other locations where they could be shown to others.
This is useful if you want to check whether a particular user has viewed a document yet especially if they claim to have not received it.
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