Good afternoon,
I'm new in this forum, but I'm an old man, over 65, with very poor and awful english writing capabilities, and low end IT knowledge :-(. So, please, be patient.
I'm successfully using PDF Creator at home and at office since 2008 (presently version 1.7.1 on Windows 7/64b) to create PDF files (generally from MS Word / Excel) protected by a password, in order to prevent text and images copy, and to prevent doc's annotations / contents alteration.
I own a small building company that very often works for pubblic administrations and governement departments, and since we have 10 PC's at office, I decided to write down a simple registry edit (see it below) that could have two functions:
1. After installing a new version of your program, I can speed up the registry "upgrade" in one second. No other configuration is required.
2. People at office don't know nor can change the protective password I adopted.
and, believe it or not, everything is working fine.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PDFCreator\Printing\Formats\PDF\Security]
"PDFAes128Encryption"="0"
"PDFAllowAssembly"="0"
"PDFAllowDegradedPrinting"="0"
"PDFAllowFillIn"="0"
"PDFAllowScreenReaders"="0"
"PDFDisallowCopy"="1"
"PDFDisallowModifyAnnotations"="1"
"PDFDisallowModifyContents"="1"
"PDFDisallowPrinting"="0"
"PDFEncryptor"="0"
"PDFHighEncryption"="1"
"PDFLowEncryption"="0"
"PDFOwnerPass"="1"
"PDFOwnerPasswordString"="mypassword"
"PDFUserPass"="0"
"PDFUserPasswordString"="mypassword"
"PDFUseSecurity"="1"
But from now on, pubblic administrations want us to send them (via e-mail) only "PDF/A-1" files (not normal PDF)... and my questions are:
A. Is the PDF/A-2b format (that I find in yr program) compatible with PDF/A-1? I mean: if people who receive such files make some test, can refuse this more recent format?
B. Is it possible to protect PDF/A-2b files in the same way I'm now protecting "normal" PDF files (as described above) ? If yes, how can I reach this result?
Thanks in advance for your kind help.
Best regards
Giuliano
I'm new in this forum, but I'm an old man, over 65, with very poor and awful english writing capabilities, and low end IT knowledge :-(. So, please, be patient.
I'm successfully using PDF Creator at home and at office since 2008 (presently version 1.7.1 on Windows 7/64b) to create PDF files (generally from MS Word / Excel) protected by a password, in order to prevent text and images copy, and to prevent doc's annotations / contents alteration.
I own a small building company that very often works for pubblic administrations and governement departments, and since we have 10 PC's at office, I decided to write down a simple registry edit (see it below) that could have two functions:
1. After installing a new version of your program, I can speed up the registry "upgrade" in one second. No other configuration is required.
2. People at office don't know nor can change the protective password I adopted.
and, believe it or not, everything is working fine.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PDFCreator\Printing\Formats\PDF\Security]
"PDFAes128Encryption"="0"
"PDFAllowAssembly"="0"
"PDFAllowDegradedPrinting"="0"
"PDFAllowFillIn"="0"
"PDFAllowScreenReaders"="0"
"PDFDisallowCopy"="1"
"PDFDisallowModifyAnnotations"="1"
"PDFDisallowModifyContents"="1"
"PDFDisallowPrinting"="0"
"PDFEncryptor"="0"
"PDFHighEncryption"="1"
"PDFLowEncryption"="0"
"PDFOwnerPass"="1"
"PDFOwnerPasswordString"="mypassword"
"PDFUserPass"="0"
"PDFUserPasswordString"="mypassword"
"PDFUseSecurity"="1"
But from now on, pubblic administrations want us to send them (via e-mail) only "PDF/A-1" files (not normal PDF)... and my questions are:
A. Is the PDF/A-2b format (that I find in yr program) compatible with PDF/A-1? I mean: if people who receive such files make some test, can refuse this more recent format?
B. Is it possible to protect PDF/A-2b files in the same way I'm now protecting "normal" PDF files (as described above) ? If yes, how can I reach this result?
Thanks in advance for your kind help.
Best regards
Giuliano