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Do you know how to protect images from being extracted or printed from a pdf?

Thanks in advance

As long as there is <Print Screen> key and Page Zoom, there's no way.

More generally, as long as it can be viewed, anything can be done with it. I remember when the Maxwell Manual was out and people were complaining about the document being protected from being printed - those people under Linux didn't even notice, cause their viewer gave a damn about any set permission bits.
If you password protect your pdfs, consider it only a means of restricting access by the majority of the PC population. If you're targeting your stuff at geeks, probably there's no use in trying to enforce restrictions...

in short... NO way.

Your only option is to make your pdf low res where it won't look good printed.

johann._ wrote:More generally, as long as it can be viewed, anything can be done with it. I remember when the Maxwell Manual was out and people were complaining about the document being protected from being printed - those people under Linux didn't even notice, cause their viewer gave a damn about any set permission bits.
If you password protect your pdfs, consider it only a means of restricting access by the majority of the PC population. If you're targeting your stuff at geeks, probably there's no use in trying to enforce restrictions...

I think you can check PDF Factory and Fineprint, they are great apps and useful, there is some protection there that you can use and I think it will help.

Try CopySafePDF !
CopySafe PDF was specially designed to protect PDF documents from all methods of copy and reproduction. It is the only solution that will protect from all threats including Printscreen and screen capture.

And there are some other useful tools on the page:

http://www.artistscope.com/copysafe/

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The CopySafe PDFs have one disadvantage - you have to use CopySafe PDF reader to view them.

The CopySafe PDF Reader is available as a free download to anyone that needs to view CopySafePDF.Documents. CopySafePDF.Documents are encrypted and can only be read or printed using Copysafe PDF Reader.

Thank you all for your replies.

I will look into these options.

You would think Adobe would have all this included in their product???

The CopySafe PDFs have one disadvantage - you have to use CopySafe PDF reader to view them.

I know, but in this situation you have to set your priorities

Sorry, but this is a loosersoft. If I have something on my computer, it's mine and this is simple. I don't see any protection method which is not possible to hack.

Try this
http://www.locklizard.com/

Ahhh, good to know.....I dont test it by myself,....I read about this software...and the critix where not so bad.Yeah , but in praxis its sometimes a little different.

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