So the ability to control PDF use has become increasingly important over time. Today making a high-quality printed copy of a PDF document is trivial, and every PC has a print screen key on it so you can get screen copies at the touch of a button.
And laser printers were expensive in every sense for many years.īut all that has changed. The focus was not on how to restrict the number of prints available on a PDF, but getting it to work with all the emerging printing technologies. And that is why the ability to restrict PDF editing and printing has become more sophisticated over time.ĭomestic printing systems were often a dot matrix printer (remember those?) where high quality was not an option, nor was colour or graphics. Click the "OK" button.Original PDF restriction controls were designed when most of today’s PDF generation software was in its infancy, and some did not exist. Type a password for the document into both password fields. For example, you can stop all formatting or limit formatting options to only certain styles such as block text or headings.Ĭlick the "Yes, Start Enforcing Protection" button at the bottom of the pane to implement your selected permissions in the Word document. Click the blue "Settings" link and select your preferred formatting restrictions. If you want to allow certain contacts editing permissions, add them from your address book in the Exceptions field under the Editing Restrictions section.Ĭlick and enable the "Formatting Restrictions" check box if you also want to stop other users from changing the format and style of the document. Alternatively, you can choose to restrict editing permissions only for tracked changes or document comments. For example, select the "No Changes (Read Only)" option for the maximum protection of preventing all edits and changes.
Select your preferred permission level from the "Allow only this type of editing in the document" pull-down menu.
Click the "Restrict Editing" button in the Protect group on the menu ribbon.Ĭlick and enable the "Editing Restrictions" check box in the Restricting Formatting and Editing pane on the right side of the screen. Click the "Review" tab above the program's main menu ribbon.
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