Acrobat 6.0 security

[PM2000]

HI,

I have an Visual Basic 6 application that generates PDF files that I send out to customers. I am not able to programmatically protect/secure the document using Acrobat 4.0. Therefore, anyone could change the text of the document if they had the right Adobe product.

Does anyone know if Acrobat 6 can be programmatically secured so that end users cannot make changes to the documents even if they have Adobe 6 professional?

Thanks,
Peter

 

[tgreer]

I don't honestly know what you can do via VB6, but you can apply security settings through Batch Processing.

When I add Acrobat as a COM reference to a .NET project and look through the various objects and methods, I don't see anything related to security.

There is a GetJSObject, which provids a programmatic link from VB to JavaScript... so we check the Acrobat JavaScript reference and see a Security Object and a SecurityHandler object. That looks promising.

So I would pursue writing your stuff in JavaScript, and using the JSObject through VB.

Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com

 

[Bullsandbears123]

I would really like to know how to do this too. If you figure it out. PLEASE post it on the site. THANKS