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Thank you. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Same here and the fix below didn't help. Garry G. Use the Smallpdf Unlock tool to enable printing for free. There are two scenarios where once cannot print their PDF document: either it is a password-protected PDF, or the content has been locked from being modified or printed.
Naturally, as the most popular online PDF tool on the net, we have solutions to both cases, just for you. Carry on reading to find out more! But if not, the process described above, which removes the password security of a PDF, should do the trick. Be wary though, it cannot unlock heavily encrypted PDF files, but for everyday uses, this should not be the case. The second situation is when a file has print restrictions on it.
In this case, you or another party has protected PDF files so that the content cannot be edited or printed. To check, double click on your PDF to open the file, and you probably will see that the content cannot be highlighted on your PDF editor. The best way would be to inquire for permission to the PDF to be granted.
But if this is not feasible, you can also convert your PDF file to an editable format, such as Word, and then click the print icon to get going. The program also gives you numerous annotation options that allow you to annotate PDF , highlight, and even markup sections of the document.
Its conversion feature is also worth mentioning as it makes it very easy for users to create PDF files from files in any other format. As we shall see very shortly, the program is very easy to use despite its many features.
Like we mentioned before, if you are using Windows 10, you are in luck since the Print to PDF feature is already in-built. There are very many to choose from, most of that are free. Domestic printing systems were often a dot matrix printer remember those? The focus was not on how to restrict PDF printing but getting it to work with all the emerging printing technologies.
And laser printers were expensive in every sense for many years. But all that has changed. Today making a high quality printed copy of a PDF document is trivial, and every PC has a key on it so you can get screen copies at the touch of a button. Adobe Acrobat and similar PDF Writer applications enable you to restrict PDF access, preventing only authorized individuals opening password protected PDF documents and restrict PDF use by applying a limited number of permissions Printing, editing, copying content, extracting pages, filling in forms.
See removing PDF passwords. They are therefore completely useless and provide NO protection. When we talk about the ability to restrict PDF files, what are we actually talking about? Preventing people from accessing a PDF document when they are not authorized to do so is achieved using encryption. A user must have a key to decrypt the PDF and use it. Commonly passwords are used to restrict PDF access but they have many weaknesses which including managability and security — see removing PDF passwords.
Certificates can also be used to encrypt PDF files but they have to be managed. See using passwords or certificates to protect PDF files.
A more secure and simple way to restrict PDF access is to use a licensing control system where keys are never exposed to users so they cannot be shared. This is what Locklizard use. If you want to restrict PDF sharing you have to stop authorized users from making copies of PDF files which they can then distribute. This can be achieved by locking documents to machines or devices so that when copied to another device they will not open.
The sharing of protected PDF files is of no advantage to users if the recipients do not have the keys that are required to open them. This is the core basis of any PDF DRM system — stopping use of any functions that could be used to modify or copy content. You may want to restrict PDF editing of content but let users add and edit annotations and fill in forms — PDF restrictions should be flexible enough to let you turn off all PDF editing or just allow annotation creation, editing and form filling.
The easiest way to restrict PDF printing is by controlling the ability of users to make printed copies which could be scanned or photocopied. Sometimes printing has to be allowed for operational reasons, but then you may need to add watermarks to the print-out, either to make it difficult to scan or photocopy successfully, or to associate the name of the authorized user so that it is clear where the copy came from.
See prevent printing. An easy way to copy PDF content is to screen grab it so you need to control this. Although users can take photos of anything visible on a screen, stopping screen grabbing prevents them from taking high-quality screenshots using software designed to do just that — see stop screen grabbing. You might also want to add watermarks to PDFs to discourage the ability of someone taking photographs of the screen images perhaps with their mobile phone.
The ability to restrict PDF downloads from websites is pretty useless.
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