Best way to secure and sell a PDF
Over the past year, I've been taking a few IT certification exams, and I have tons of notes that I've converted to PDF. I didn't realize so many people would be so interested in seeing and buying my notes, especially after giving them feedback on how the experience was and how useful my notes were.
I don't have any experience creating digital certificates, but I do believe there's some good security features I can use with Adobe Acrobat Pro X to get this job done. I know I won't be able to secure everything 100% obviously, but I'd like to do whatever I can.
What is the best method to go about to make sure my PDF can only be opened by the person I sent it to, and make it corrupt if they save a copy, or send it to another person? Also, I know there's a way to prevent right click + copy, but not sure how to do that either. One more thing, is there a way to prevent the PDF contents from being shown in a screen capture?
Thanks for any help.
The security features do try to do some of what you want, other than the sending to others. However, the security feature is easily gotten around, though the methods to do so are not generally discussed here. So the only real answer to your problem is to use Digital Rights Management. I believe Adobe has a package to do that, but I really have never used it. This is the DRM that was mentioned.
For the average user, there would not be a problem except for the sending out copies. It all depends on how much you want to push the point. The basic security would work for most folks. Keeping them from sending a copy to someone else would have to be on the trust format. If you are wanting to charge, DRM may be the best route. If you are just concerned about the protection of your work, then maybe you should just do a copyright.
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