Formulaires enregistrables et protection par certificat

Bonjour,
Mon contexte : Des documents sont mis à disposition sur le réseau et son  protégés par certificat : on ne peut les ouvrir que si le certificat  est installé sur le PC. Or, parmi ces fichiers, il y a des formulaires  qui doivent être protégés mais qui doivent aussi pouvoir être  enregistrables.
Je me doute un petit peu de la réponse, mais est-il possible de protéger des formulaires enregistrables (c'est à dire que l'on peut enregistrer le formulaire modifié sous Reader) par certificat tout en conservant la sécurité sur le formulaire enregistré ?
Merci d'avance pour votre réponse.
Cdt.

Merci pour ces informations!
En voulant tout de même explorer toutes les possibilités, j'ai contacté le service client pour Adobe LiveCycle...
Cette protection coûte quelques milliers d'euros par document.
Je me suis donc tourné vers LockLizard, et je retrouve là aussi des prix faramineux (à mon humble avis).
Puis en recherchant un DRM gratuit, je suis tombé sur une multitude de sites proposants divers moyens et logiciels pour cracker les DRM.
Je me demande donc si cela vaut le coup, même pour les entreprises fortunées, de souscrire à un abonnement pour avoir une protection qui ne me semble pas si fiable.
Pour en revenir à la méthode JavaScript, étant quelque peu débutant, j'ai presque entièrement recopié le code de niveau document.
Ne sachant pas où implémenter le "designe code", j'ai ajouté manuellement un filigrane opaque avec un message demandant d'activer JavaScript.
Pour ce qui est du champ date, ne trouvant pas comment le créer, j'ai laissé une date en dur en attendant de trouver.
J'ai fait deux ou trois petits changements (le texte d'alerte, et j'ai essayé d'ajouter la fonction deletePages()).
Et après avoir chiffré le document par la méthode de certificat, à l'ouverture du document, une fois sur deux, le filigrane apparaît alors qu'il ne devrait pas.
j'ai donc implémenté ce code au niveau de la première page, et là, plus de problèmes de filigrane jusqu'à ce que je change de page.
Je pourrai écrire le code pour chaque page, mais ce serait du travail d'âne.
Je suis donc ouvert à vos propositions.
Je voulais aussi savoir s'il etait facil de cracker une protection comme celle-ci

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