

Adobe could advertise or demonstrate PDF protection using tax documents more effectively than with any other example. This detail must have been in another thread, but someone had to have something for the tax department, and The Taxman is surely the poster child for documents, especially PDFs, that he does not want tampered with. That is the official stuff, if you google it you will find a million workarounds and alternatives.Įdited to add: If copying the content of the PDF is good enough for you, then Greenshot will capture a screenshot and save it for you in Word. While installing Foxit PDF Editor/Foxit PDF Reader, you might encounter the following error message: Printer installation failed, please check the print service. If the computer has both Adobe Reader and either Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Acrobat DC installed, I think Adobe will insist that Acrobat must take precedence over the lowly Reader. See if you can select text from the screen display if not, then it may be a form of protection or it may be that the system sees it as a graphic and not as text.Īpart from that, check to see that the file association is with the correct program, and check to see if the relevant printer is the default. You might treat that as homework, as it is well worth remembering. There is a tutorial from Adobe explaining the intricacies of this at How to Protect PDF Documents.

When you are talking about a specific PDF, you should realize that it may be protected, and one of the various forms of protection is that the recipient may allowed to read it, but he is not allowed to print it. Retrieved which drivers are installed (see also a post on ): >pnputil -e >drivers.txt Checked drivers.txt, then with cmd.
