Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

[Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be>]

Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
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> You might use a password if you wanted to provide complete access for
> some people and no access for others.  For someone who has the password,
> there is no real protection.  I sent some financial documents to a loan
> officer once as a password-protected PDF.  I emailed him the PDF and
> then left the password on his voicemail.  For my purposes, that was
> sufficient security, and it didn't require any fancy technology or
> software on his end.
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> Here it is.  I wrote this in response to a question from a user of my
> PDF software, qpdf, which is in debian, but other than a quick mention
> of a few specific tools, the response is not related to any particular
> PDF application.
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Thanks for this really interesting text about this stuff. Really, I
learnt some things.

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