Hi…
I’ve checked adobe’s forums, I’ve looked everywhere. Do any of you programmers out there know how to do the following:
**Convert a Word Document to Read-Only PDF through Visual Basic? **
I can convert fine using VBA to change the printer to the PDFWriter and printing. But I can’t figure out how to make it read only! This is a very important part, because these docs are for clients and we don’t want them changing it, even if they have the full Acrobat.
Thanks for any help…
-S
can’t do it. if one has the full acrobat, they can edit pdf’s. if you really want, convert your full pages into actual images. eps… etc. then convert that into a PDF where it will be a useable file size again. then they can add all kinds of things to the final PDF if they want to, but not alter any of the text.
Hmm. There is a security setting in the full acrobat that lets you set the file as read-only… I’ve done that. If you open up a PDF in acrobat and “save as…” then select the security thing, it gives you that option. My problem is that I don’t know how to do it through code.
Thanks… converting to images is a good idea, I might have to resort to that.
-S
you could try saving with security settings at normal, and providing a password in the second field, they don’t have the password, they can’t edit the thing, you can allow for only printing and reading then.
According to Adobe’s forum, you can’t write a read-only file unless you use a plug-in, which is impossible for us because of how we are deploying this.
I found a third party control that will take a PDF and allow you to mess around with the security, so I’m trying that now.
-S