Tutorial: protecting produced PDF document from printing and copying of content using PDFDoc Scout library

You can download the source code of this example here: pdfdoscout_protection_options_demo.zip

This example shows how to protect generated PDF document from printing and content copying usingPDFDoc Scout library

Code to convert generate and protect PDF document:

IMPORTANT: set .ProtectionEnabled and other security options before calling .BeginDocument so generated document will be stored with protection while generated

Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument") ' create PDFDoc object
PDFDoc.InitLibrary "demo", "demo" ' initialize library

PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "ProtectionDemo.pdf" ' set output filename for PDF document
PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true ' automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application

PDFDoc.ProtectionEnabled = true

PDFDoc.ProtectionOptions_AllowCopy = false ' forbid copying of text content
PDFDoc.ProtectionOptions_AllowPrint = false' allow printing
PDFDoc.ProtectionOptions_AllowPrintHiQuality = false ' forbid printing in hi-quality mode

PDFDoc.BeginDocument ' starts PDF document generation

PDFDoc.Page.AddTextBox "Protection demo. Document can not be printed (.ProtectionOptions_AllowPrint = false). This text can not be copied (.ProtectionOptions_AllowCopy = false)", 10, 100, 400, 500,0,0

PDFDoc.EndDocument ' close pdf document generation

' disconnect from library
Set PDFDoc = Nothing

You can download the source code of this example here: pdfdoscout_protection_options_demo.zip