DBWPdfSecurityManager.exe

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DBWPdfSecurityManager.exe

Introduction

This utility is distributed to allow the user to set specific rights on an existing PDF document.

Specifically it's a 32bit .NET 3.5 Console Application that allows to ensure that the pdfs are protected from opening and/or from specific actions such as copy, modify contents and print.

Parameters

1

Complete path to the source pdf file

2

Complete path to the resulting pdf file

3

User password, necessary to open the file. An empty password will let the user at least open the file.

4

Owner password. If both passwords are set when you try to open the document you will be asked for a password.
If you enter this one all the restrictions will be removed.

Following parameters

Can be one of the following to allow specific actions, otherwise disabled:

allowPrint

allowCopy
allowModifyContents
allowModifyAnnotations
Example

DBWPdfSecurityManager.exe Z:\FILES\MyOriginalDoc.PDF C:\SECURESTORAGE\MyProtectedDoc.PDF UserPWD OwnerPWD

Once created, when opening the document you will be asked for the password:

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and if you take a look to security file properties you see the allowed/not allowed features:

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Example

another example of this functionality is \LST\DEMO_LST\OnRevisionOutputFilesCreated_protectedPDF.LST (that has to be renamed as OnRevisionOutputFilesCreated.LST to be run) that create a protected copy of any PDF generated through the revision output.