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From: John Gugerty
Date: Mar 1, 2006 11:10AM

If you add security settings using Acrobat 7.0, the save as, copy, and
print options do not work. Other tools might be available to someone who
wants to override the permissions settings, but the options below are
disabled for the user with Acrobat. A sample is attached. Its security
summary is as follows:
method: password secudrity
document open password: no
permissions password: yes
printing: none
changing document: not allowed
content copying or extraction: not allowed
commenting: not allowed
content accessibility enabled: allowed
document assembly: not allowed



>>> "Karl Groves" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 3/1/2006 7:45:22 AM
>>>

Martin -

There is no way to protect the author's content.
Open a PDF or PPT document and go to the "File" menu.
In PDF, you'll see an option to "Save as Text".
In PPT, you'll see a "Save As" and the options given include RTF.
If the authors of those documents think that PDF or PPT is going to
protect
it from getting stolen, they're wrong.


Karl L. Groves
User-Centered Design, Inc.
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