Preventing Preview from saving downloaded PDFs

I love Preview in many ways, but one way I miss Adobe (or is it Windows...?) is that the PDFs were saved as temp files and deleted when closed. This meant if I wanted a copy, I manually saved it. With Preview, my desktop can quickly fill up with unwanted copies. it gets worse when I revisit a PDF and get multiple copies of the same (seems like Preview would be smart enough to know it had already been there). How can I either prevent or change the location to which Preview saves downloaded PDFs?
Also, I'm using Firefox and it just occurred to me this could be Mozilla "functionality". Is it?

*The lack of a Google toolbar for Safari really has me down on it*
Hmmm! There's one on mine. You must have deleted it. Check View->Customize Toolbar and drag it back or just use the defaults setting.
How? I've yet to see options for either of these.
*First off, if you want PDF's to open in your browser, set it up that way.*
You need to install PDF Browser Plugin.plugin. Sorry, I've had it for over three years, so I forget it doesn't come with Safari. Get it at http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/
*If you don't want PDFs downloaded to your Desktop, change the download location.*
Safari->Preferences->General->Save downloaded files to: whereever

Similar Messages

I want to prevent users from saving a PDF form with the data filled in

I am using Adobe Acrobat X Pro to create a fillable PDF form. When I open my form in Acrobat Reader XI, it says right at the top "You can save data typed into this form." I have NOT saved it as Reader Extended PDF. This is a form that will be emailed to recipients or available to download from our website as a PDF so they can fill it out on their office computer, print with the data filled, and then fax or snail mail to us. (No online or email submissions.) We do not want them to accidentally save confidential information on the form that will be visible to the next user when they close it, or to Save As and keep the filled form.
I know there are still ways to do it if someone really wants to, like printing it to PDF or using a PDF software other than Reader, but these are not folks who would have time or intention to do such a thing. 99% of them will be using some version of Reader, probably a much older one than mine. Thank you for any advice!

Thank you Gilad and George for trying. I just discovered both of you have replied to this issue here - http://forums.adobe.com/message/5881211#5881211 - which is my exact same situation; I am also a regional health care agency trying to provide forms for health care providers! (It's a small world.) I just didn't find this thread the first time I searched for answers. I will investigate the JavaScript reset Form statement. Thanks!

Prevent Users From Saving PDF?

I have created a PDF that has confidential information in it. I do not want to give users the option of being able to save the PDF to their computer. Is there a security setting to prevent viewers from saving a PDF?

No, that's technically impossible. If you want them to be able to see it,
the file must first be saved on the local machine.

Stopping "Preview" from saving every document.

How can I stop Preview from saving every pdf file I open? I can't find anything in the prefs that allow me to simply "read" docs without saving them. Thanks.

swami7774 wrote:
I normally use Firefox but tried Safari based on your recommendation. If I hit "open document in new window" it does not download, so the problem is solved if I use Safari. That fix does NOT work with Firefox. No matter what viewing choice I make the document is saved to the desktop. Can't find a Firefox preference that addresses this.
You can change where it goes, though. +Firefox > Preferences > General > Downloads.+

What HTTP caching headers will prevent iPhoto from re-downloading each image in a "Photo Feed" every time it checks the feed for new content?

I've noticed a practical issue with iPhoto's File->"Subscribe to Photo Feed..." feature.
Every time that iPhoto checks a subscribed RSS Photo Feed for new content it will re-download each and every photo in the feed. This occurs even if iPhoto has already downloaded each image, they all have unique GUIDs set, and no content in the feed has changed since the last time it polled for it.
My best guess is that this happens if the server offering the feed does not produce the proper cache-control parameters in the HTTP Headers that are sent by the server when the RSS feed is accessed by iPhoto.
Does anyone know what parameter/value pairs need to be set in the HTTP headers to prevent iPhoto from re-downloading RSS enclosures that it already has?
This is a very practical problem for feeds with a large number of photos of large file size. Besides the obvious massive waste of bandwidth, the user receives an annoying error whenever they try to quit iPhoto before the feed and all of it's images have been re-downloaded yet again.

Here is an example of the HTTP headers for two of the images in the feed.
Any red flags in there that you think might be causing iPhoto to think it needs to re-download the images after it's already downloaded them once?
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 1251893
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:37:49 GMT
Server: Apache
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=1b9d47ae170ba8c0a088ab7124a1677e; path=/
Expires: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:37:49 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=315360000,public
Pragma: public
Last-Modified: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:34:38 GMT
Accept-Ranges: none
Connection: close
Content-Type: image/jpeg;
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 744151
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:39:01 GMT
Server: Apache
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=086c112f99ccecc266a47d66d6b47733; path=/
Expires: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:39:01 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=315360000,public
Pragma: public
Last-Modified: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:54:40 GMT
Accept-Ranges: none
Connection: close
Content-Type: image/jpeg;

Forcing preview to see downloaded pdf's automatically

forcing preview to see downloaded pdf's automatically.
Safari dowloads these but preview doesn't open it unless forced.
My other MB air downloads them and automatically opens them in th media viewer of Safari.
Workarounds?
Thanks in advance
MB air 11' OS 10.7

In Safari, open the menu named "Safari" then click Preferences and look on the General tab. At the bottom is "Open 'safe' files after downloading" -- do you have that option selected?

How to prevent users from saving and emailing intranet documents externally

Someone in our company needs to upload a pdf to our sharepoint intranet site for internal-only use. How can I prevent users from downloading it and emailing it externally?
I mean, a user could screenshot it I guess, but I need to give management a due diligence answer.

You would need to look into a reverse proxy/firewall that had the ability to block access based on content. This isn't something you can accomplish out of the box with SharePoint (even with AD RMS).
Trevor Seward
Follow or contact me at...
&nbsp&nbsp
This post is my own opinion and does not necessarily reflect the opinion or view of Microsoft, its employees, or other MVPs.

Can I prevent preview from making files larger?

This thread finds that Preview makes PDFs larger in 10.6 and 10.8. I have experienced this from 10.6 through 10.10.1 (staying up to date all the while).
How do I prevent this from happening? Is there any sign that Apple will make a PDF editor as useful as Acrobat anytime soon?
Other Info
- I often sanitize PDFs in Acrobat to eliminate issues
- I often text encode (OCR) PDFs in Acrobat (because I need to)
(Why I don't use Acrobat: because it can't do full screen and it is the opposite of the minimalist style I prefer)

Oh oops!
Forgot it
Just changed my message!
Thanks for reminding me.

Sandboxd prevents preview from opening images

The sanboxd is preventing me from opening some, but not all, images with preview.
The system.log shows:
Dec 16 23:36:17 computer_name Preview[7570]: PVImageContainer initWithURL:file://localhost/Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.Previe w/Data/file.jpg failed, error = Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=257 "The file âfile.jpgât be opened because you donât have permission to view it." UserInfo=0x104ef6960 {NSFilePath=/Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/file.jpg, NSUnderlyingError=0x104e71ec0 "The operation couldnât be completed. Operation not permitted"}
Dec 16 23:36:17 computer_name sandboxd[10125] ([7570]): Preview(7570) deny file-issue-extension /Users/username/file.jpg
Dec 16 23:36:17 computer_name Preview[7570]: Bookmark failed to issue extension for item /Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/file.jpg (depth=1): Operation not permitted
I have recently migrated from a macbook with 10.6 to a macbook air with 10.7. I used migration assistant via wifi.
The problem arises both on newly downloaded images as well as images that were transferred via migration assistant.
The file permission is 755, and File->View permissions looks perfectly fine.
Any idea what is causing this and how to I prevent this from happening again?

Hi Linc,
thank you for the suggestion, but unfortunately it did not help. For the top directory, and all subsequent directories, I have read&write (755) permissions, as well as for the files that i can not open.
This appears to happen randomly. Some directories are affected, some are not, and it appears to happen to all files in certain directories.
Interestingly, if I control-click and select e.g. Explorer, I can view the image. Also, if I copy the file to my Desktop, I can also view the image. So it only happens to Preview in certain directories.

A way to prevent photos from being downloaded?

I remember seeing an option one time about allowing people to download images on your site that you created using iweb but I never messed around with it. So is there a way to do something that would prevent people from taking your photos? I am asking because I do photography work. There are a lot of sites out there that won't allow you to right click your mouse and snag the photo. Just wondering if iWeb offered anything like that.

DVX100Shooter wrote:
Just wondering if iWeb offered anything like that.
The only thing iWeb offers in that regard is, if your photos are on a Photos template page, you can set the "Photo Download Size" to "None" in iWeb's Inspector > Photos tab:
...Then the Download button won't appear. But iWeb doesn't prevent right-click downloading.

Preventing Photos from being downloaded

I am looking for a way of protecting my photos from being downloaded off my web site. Does anyone have any ideas?
Cheers

Hi Ken
See this previous thread, http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1763218&#1763218
It doesn't really look to good......
Will
1GHz G4, 15" PowerBook, Airport Network, 1G iPod Mini Mac OS X (10.4.5) Updated - Get Started with iWeb (WillG4PB.com)

How to prevent users from saving data in pdf

I have created several new pdfs for my communications center and would like to know how I can have these documents to be filled out but not have the info saved by the users? I dont want the original document to be lost because someone accidentally saved the info they were inputing into it. The forms I have created already have a print button at the top right corner so that is all I want the users to be able to do, fill it out, print it out, then close out original document without saving.

You can't prevent it absolutely, but there are some things you can try to minimize the problem, such as:
1. Provide a reset form button that the user can click to clear all of the fields, either with a Reset Form action or the resetForm JavaScript method.
2. Reset the form using JavaScript in the Document Will Save event.
3. Have the users set the file to read-only in the file system.

Security Method? Saving downloaded PDF's

I have credit card accounts which I access on Safari. Each month I download the statements as .pdf files. When I view some of these downloads on Preview, I can save them using a Save-As command. But for files downloaded from other sides, the Save-As is grayed out.
When I check the info for each file, the only difference I can see is that the files I can't "save-As" have a "Password encrypted" Security methods whereas the other ones have no security method. Ownership/Permissions seem the same for each one
How can I remove this limitation? The work around I use is to rename the files in the info tab and then drag them to the folder I want.
Thanks for your help

> If I then try to copy it over to the external hard-drive I get another error.
Error message?

Unable to open a saved/ downloaded pdf file

Hi
I get the following error when trying to open pdf file that was downloaded and saved through a java program.
Adobe Reader could not open 'export.pdf' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged. (for eg. it was sent as email attachment and was not correctly decoded.
Any solution or suggestion to this error will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Revathi

Since you don't tell us anything about your code, we can only guess.
Here are common solutions:
- Don't use any of those types when handling your data: char, char[], String, Reader, Writer.
- Make sure that you really understand what read(byte[]) does and when it returns. (Hint: when ignore its return value or call it outside a loop, then you don't understand it).

How to prevent user from saving file on local drives

Hi,
We have a file server set up on a Windows 2003 Server. Is there any way to restrict users so that they can only open and view the file but they can't save it on their local drives? If not, can this be done with Windows 2008 or 2012 or any Linux
server or any document management software?
Thanks,
Jerry

If you can open the file from a client then generally there is not much you can do to prevent them saving it locally. Unless you restrict the clients access to save anything at all on their local hard drive which depending of the security requirements of
the data you are accessing could be a valid option.
Depending how critical / sensitive that information you could look at alternate method of accessing that file. In my experience securing important / secret data comes down to access procedures just as much if not more than technical solutions.
Maybe restrict access to that file to a handful of trusted users who can then inform the "untrusted" users of any information they need.
Like I say this is a procedural issue as much as anything else.

Preventing Preview from saving downloaded PDFs

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for