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Updated: February 2017 White Paper: What PDF Security options are available? Please see our PDF Quick Guide web page for more details on many aspects of publishing PDF files. When choosing PDF security solutions there are several key questions to ask. However, there is no perfect and universal solution to all requirements, so please don’t expect one! For example, if physical printing is permitted the end user can always scan in the printout and screens can be photographed, scanned or captured and used to create a new PDF without security enabled – “intelligent watermarking” can help discourage and protect against this problem. Every protection scheme has its limitations, and the more sophisticated it is the more obtrusive and difficult it typically becomes for the end user, so there is always a trade-off between simplicity and security. Corporate and Social pressure and international copyright law are a publisher’s ultimate forms of protection – coupled with the best PDF security solutions that strongly discourage abuse of copyright and protect against the most obvious forms of piracy and copyright abuse. The question we are most often asked is what is the difference between providing security for a standard Adobe-style PDF and Digital Rights Management (DRM) based security? This is perhaps best answered by highlighting a few key things to know about PDF security: 1. Adobe permissioning security is easily removed by many software packages and free online services, so has very little protective value. Even when implemented and not removed, non- Adobe PDF readers can simply ignore it and continue to allow printing, for example, without regard to the settings you have made. This screen shot on our website from Adobe Acrobat makes this clear: /wordpress/wp- content/uploads/2015/02/adobeprint.png 2. A file that has been “secure