The Portable Document Format PDF is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. Each. PDF Editor Perform all your document updates in PDF. Documents evolve over time, requiring the needs for multiple file formats to be updated the word. Learn about the HMAC authentication mechanism and study the source code sample for securing an ASP. NET Web API using HMAC. Technology keeps you connected everywhere you go, helps you capture every moment makes your life a bit easier stay uptodate with tips tricks from eHow. Prevent PDF file from downloading and printing. I wish I had an answer but I only have Part of one. And I cannot take credit for it but the way to get it is below. This is a more serious issue than it is being given credit for from the sound of the replies. Everyone is automatically assuming that the content that needs protection is for public consumption. This is not always the case. Sometimes there are legal or contractual reasons that require the site owner to take all possible measures to prevent downloading the file. Drake The Resistance Download Hulk Games there. The most obvious one I can think of has already brought up. The Action Option Bar presented by the browser to on almost any file you can left click. Adobe DRM does nothing about that and worse, Adobe Acrobat cannot even have its own abilities to Save blocked as part of the DRM protection. This option comes up even in Reader no matter what other security selections you have chosen. In our case, Adobe Acrobat was purchased solely to provide some degree of protection for their own format. It is hard to believe that Adobe will let you prevent printing, prevent editing, prevent even opening without a password or you can really go all out and use a certificate for your encryption. Yet they have no options to prevent saving at any point, anywhere. Instead offering the consolation of telling you Dont worry The copy they download without your permission will also have the same DRM on it as well. Unfortunately that was not the sole purpose of the purchase and half a solution is no solution at all. There are probably 1. DRM from Adobe documents and even if not, the point was that the client specified that no downloads be allowed even by users who had access to the private site. Therefore the need to prevent the download to start with is not so hard to understand. While conversion to FLASH may give you the download protection, you lose all the rest. Unless I can find a way to prevent opening, saving etc for a Flash File. Next, is it possible to password protect a Flash file from opening when clicked on The partial fix that I was finally able to get to work as needed still only disables all the right click functions but it does include a nice Warning Box where I can explain that the User has already agreed NOT to download, print, save and so on just to have access to the page. I am not sure if I could post the code here or whether it is acceptable to paste links either but a Google search for Maximus right click will take you to it. And it was one of several examples, it just happened to be the one I could implement the easiest and worked better than the others. Credit where credit is due. Another option I was given by someone was a product called Flipping Book. And the user above suggestions for Atalasoft I had already found that and have sent a request for more information. Hopefully it will be The Solution and I can implement it in time to help. It seems to me that this is a place where there is an obvious need for a one step packaged solution and usually The Laws of Nature take care of such an Imbalance in short order. Yet my research has taken me through many years of posters all asking for the same thing. Looks like someone would be able to make a nice living off a simple way to add a little more protection to PDFs or other documents, images etc for the people who obviously are in need of it. If I find it, and it works, Im buying it. I wish I had skills as a programmer because I have some pretty good ideas of ways to implement such a product, unfortunately, I do not know how to put these ideas into practical use.