[Eril-l] Creating PDFs with DRM

[Hockenberry, Benjamin]

Acrobat can block users from printing or editing a document (walkthrough<https://www.wpi.edu/Academics/ATC/Collaboratory/HowTo/AcrobatX/printing.html>).  I don't have experience with tools to prevent download, though.

Ben Hockenberry, Systems Librarian
Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College | 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618
(585) 385-8382 | bhockenberry at sjfc.edu<mailto:bhockenberry at sjfc.edu>

From: Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] On Behalf Of Mackinder, Lisa
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 11:08 AM
To: eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
Subject: [Eril-l] Creating PDFs with DRM

Hello,

We receive proprietary PDFs from a third-party as donations.  Rather than incur the expense of printing and binding them to add to the collection, we'd like to provide access electronically.  However, the third party wants assurances that we can prevent downloading and printing of the PDFs.  So I'm exploring this possibility.

Does anyone have any experience with a way to accomplish this type of protection?  I'm thinking there must be a product or platform out there that can take a PDF and provide DRM restrictions to it to limit downloading and printing.

Thanks for your help,


Lisa


Lisa Mackinder | Head of Acquisitions and Collections Services
Alden Library | Ohio University
740-593-2707 | mackinde at ohio.edu<mailto:mackinde at ohio.edu>

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