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Tutorial: protecting produced PDF document from printing and copying of content using PDFDoc Scout library

How to protect PDF document generated with PDFDoc Scout from printing and content copying  

You can download the source code of this example here: pdfdoscout_protection_options_demo.zip

This example shows how to protect generated PDF document from printing and content copying usingPDFDoc Scout library

Code to convert generate and protect PDF document:

IMPORTANT: set .ProtectionEnabled and other security options before calling .BeginDocument so generated document will be stored with protection while generated

Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument") ' create PDFDoc object
PDFDoc.InitLibrary "demo", "demo" ' initialize library

PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "ProtectionDemo.pdf" ' set output filename for PDF document
PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true ' automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application

PDFDoc.ProtectionEnabled = true

PDFDoc.ProtectionOptions_AllowCopy = false ' forbid copying of text content
PDFDoc.ProtectionOptions_AllowPrint = false' allow printing
PDFDoc.ProtectionOptions_AllowPrintHiQuality = false ' forbid printing in hi-quality mode

PDFDoc.BeginDocument ' starts PDF document generation

PDFDoc.Page.AddTextBox "Protection demo. Document can not be printed (.ProtectionOptions_AllowPrint = false). This text can not be copied (.ProtectionOptions_AllowCopy = false)", 10, 100, 400, 500,0,0

PDFDoc.EndDocument ' close pdf document generation

' disconnect from library
Set PDFDoc = Nothing

You can download the source code of this example here: pdfdoscout_protection_options_demo.zip

Filed in: PDFDoc Scout SDK

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