Questions about securing a file to prevent printing

I need to prevent users from printing a file, and I tried to set up a password under Windows and got a message "Use of non-FIPS cryptology is not permitted while in FIPS mode." I was able to add the password on a Mac and it did the job (prevented printing on Mac and Windows), but I remember coming across a problem a few years ago with a password-protected file for a client (I may have enabled the FIPS mode on this computer at that time to check that file). I don't remember exactly what the problem was at that time; it was an editable form and I'm assuming that the problem was that the file could not be saved once the data was entered into the file.
My current document will not have any editable fields, and I just wanted to check to see if there could be any potential problems with using password security in case this client has FIPS mode enabled.

In Acrobat Pro 9, select Advanced > Security > Encrypt With Password. At the bottom of that screen you can restrict printing.

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iTunes for Mac doesn't support .wma files.
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Be sure to scan all your files for viruses before moving them from the PC to the Mac. Although PC viruses should have no effect on a Mac, it's still possible to pass on a virus to a friend via email.
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"The reality is that today the Mac platform is relatively safe. There are hundreds of thousands of viruses and other malicious software programs floating around for Windows, but less than 200 are known to target the Mac, and many of those are aimed at versions of the Mac OS prior to Mac OS X (and thus have no effect on a modern Mac).
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Mr. Mogull is a computer security expert. I recommend reading the entire article as it is quite informative.
For additional information on viruses, trojans, and spyware visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on viruses and spyware.

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Relaunch the Finder, then from the Finder menu bar, select
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Hello all Pages users !,
I am really strugling with trying to learn, comprehend and use InDesign CS5 for a future free give-away 60 or 62 pages magazine.
I do understand and manage quite well apple 's PAGES for normal regular brochures and flyers use.
I truly need some advices regarding my project, as while being at ease with the use of Pages, there are some specific points I need
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1/ How to set the necessary margins, bleed, trim, gutter and middle flat squre binding spin ?
2/ Will there be problems if I import pre-vectorized images/texts with transparent background (i.e. in PNG format)
3/ Should I only import CMYK photos from my photoshop instead of RGB ?
4/ Is there a specific setting for all the facing pages (let/right) and numbering them ?
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will be perfect for press printing, and what would you guys kindly recommend ?
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The person as always best able to answer your questions is the printer who will be printing your magazine.
They may be an exception but I doubt they will be happy with you doing it in Pages.
Pages is designed for output to your desktop printer. There are a string of issues to do with preparing a print job for commercial printing that Pages is either ill-equiped or plain just unable to manage.
If you say you are struggling with Indesign which is designed to manage all aspects of commercial printing, what makes you think that choosing a program that isn't will improve matters?
1. Pages does not have crops, bleeds or slugs. You can however manually construct these yourself with sufficient work.
2. Pages has no tools to help you manage your output, ensure that black only text/objects are black only, that resolution is high enough, that its unique objects such as frames pass through the printer's RIP correctly.
3. By default Pages produces exceptionally low resolution transparency (only 72dpi) for shadows, reflections, 3d graphs, frames and transparency overlaying bitmaps in exported pdfs.
4. Ask your printer whether he can fix trapping in his RIP because Pages doesn't.
5. You can DL and install certain print workflows that will correct some of these but will still not get correct pdf-X3 that printers require.
6. You can not bypass output through Apple's problematic print engine, even though fruhulda's link thinks he has.
7. OSX can not make spot color objects, although spot color already in pdf objects brought into Pages should (not guarranteed) be honored.
8. I don't know what you mean by pre-vectorized images because png is rgb bitmap only and does not contain vectors nor text. I think you might mean pre-rasterised, not a good idea.
9. You will assume command of the Good Ship Pages and all who sail in her, the printer will probably hand all responsibility for output to you. You get to pay no matter what happens. Good luck.
In summary, if you are uncomfortable with and don't know how to handle pre-press settings and requirements, I suggest you do not, and instead hand the job over to a professional to produce and manage for you.
Finding out that you do not have what it takes to print commercially, can be a very expensive and salutory experience. Printers will find it hard to say no to you despite their apprehension, but then it will be your baby.
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I have secured PDF documents to prevent printing and saving the document. Why PDF plugin built into Firefox allows you to skip the security?

I am using PDFfactory to secure the PDF documents in my company. Despite this, users can open the document in Firefox and print, and save it locally. This is unacceptable because of the ISO standards process in my company. Please help ASAP.

''dzuniek [[#question-1046197|said]]''
<blockquote>
I am using PDFfactory to secure the PDF documents in my company. Despite this, users can open the document in Firefox and print, and save it locally. This is unacceptable because of the ISO standards process in my company. Please help ASAP.
</blockquote>
I think the first course of action would be to try securing with a different authoring program (if you have access to one) and seeing if you have the same problem.
As for the downloading and printing side of it, even with a protected PDF, anyone with the intent and a little knowledge will be able to download it. Or screenshot each page in their viewer.
One way to prevent them getting a usable print is to create a solid annotation field across each page of the document. It will be invisible whilst just being viewed but when printed the annotation field will cover everything, thereby producing a blank page.
Is it fair to ask whether a pdf is the best way of presenting information that you do not want them to download and subsequently print, seeing as that is exactly the reason PDF's exist?

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When you choose Smallest File size, it is still using the PDF 1.6 setting.
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Question about multiple class files

I just started learning JAVA a couple of days ago and the first program I wrote had two classes in one file. here is the program :
class fib_num {
public int value;
public boolean is_even;
class Fibonacci {
/** Print the Fibonacci sequence for values < MAX and mark even numbers with an asterick */
private static final int MAX = 50;
private static final String Title = "The Fibonacci sequence for values less than " + MAX + ":";
private static fib_num[] fib = new fib_num[MAX];//This is actually an array of object
//references to objects of the fib_num class
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(Title);
//We must initialize each element of the array also !!!!
for (int i = 0; i < fib.length; i += 1) {
fib = new fib_num();
int lo = 1, hi = 1;
fib[0].value = lo;
fib[0].is_even = false;
fib[1].value = hi;
fib[1].is_even = false;
for (int i = 2; i < fib.length; i += 1) {
//create the next Fibonacci number and then save the previous Fibonacci number
hi = lo + hi;
lo = hi - lo;
fib.value = hi;
//now indicate if the Fibonacci number is even/odd
if (fib.value % 2 == 0) {
fib.is_even = true;
}else {
fib.is_even = false;
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//This method prints an array of Fibonacci numbers
public static void print(fib_num[] array) {
if (array == null || array.length == 0)
throw new IllegalArgumentException();
String mark;
for (int i = 0; array.value < MAX; i += 1) {
if (array.is_even) {
mark = "*";
}else {
mark = "";
System.out.println((i + 1) + ": " + array.value + mark);
I ran the program and everything went fine. But today I started to write another program with two classes. However the file will not compile and I get an error about interfacing or something. here is the program:
Note: it's not nearly complete.
class enumerate {
//print out all permutations of a list of integers
public static final int MAX = 4;
public static int[] initialize(int[] nums) {
for (int i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) {
nums = i + 1;
return nums;
public static void print(int[] nums) {
for (int i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) {
System.out.print(nums);
System.out.println("");
public static void swap (int[] nums, int i, int j) {
int temp = nums;
nums = nums[j];
nums[j] = temp;
public static void main (String[] args) {
int[] list = new int[MAX];
list = initialize(list);
PermutationGenerator x = new PermutationGenerator(5);
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import java.math.BigInteger;
public class PermutationGenerator {
private int[] a;
private BigInteger numLeft;
private BigInteger total;
// Constructor. WARNING: Don't make n too large.
// Recall that the number of permutations is n!
// which can be very large, even when n is as small as 20 --
// 20! = 2,432,902,008,176,640,000 and
// 21! is too big to fit into a Java long, which is
// why we use BigInteger instead.
public PermutationGenerator (int n) {
if (n < 1) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException ("Min 1");
a = new int[n];
total = getFactorial (n);
reset ();
// Reset
public void reset () {
for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
a = i;
numLeft = new BigInteger (total.toString ());
// Return number of permutations not yet generated
public BigInteger getNumLeft () {
return numLeft;
// Return total number of permutations
public BigInteger getTotal () {
return total;
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public boolean hasMore () {
return numLeft.compareTo (BigInteger.ZERO) == 1;
// Compute factorial
private static BigInteger getFactorial (int n) {
BigInteger fact = BigInteger.ONE;
for (int i = n; i > 1; i--) {
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return fact;
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public int[] getNext () {
if (numLeft.equals (total)) {
numLeft = numLeft.subtract (BigInteger.ONE);
return a;
int temp;
// Find largest index j with a[j] < a[j+1]
int j = a.length - 2;
while (a[j] > a[j+1]) {
j--;
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// greater than a[j] to the right of a[j]
int k = a.length - 1;
while (a[j] > a[k]) {
k--;
// Interchange a[j] and a[k]
temp = a[k];
a[k] = a[j];
a[j] = temp;
// Put tail end of permutation after jth position in increasing order
int r = a.length - 1;
int s = j + 1;
while (r > s) {
temp = a[s];
a[s] = a[r];
a[r] = temp;
r--;
s++;
numLeft = numLeft.subtract (BigInteger.ONE);
return a;
I thought the error had somethin to do with only having one class per .java file since the compiler creates a .class file. But how come my first program had two classes and it was OK. Is it b/c the second class was merely a collection of fields, almost like a simple struct in C?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Move the import java.math.BigInteger line to the start of the file.
Use the "[ code ] [ /code ]" tags around your code when you post, it makes reading it a lot easier.

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Hello. This isnt a java question but you guys have been so helpful in the past I hope its ok if I ask this question for a friend.
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I know nothing about scriptware or Screenwriter. But, my only advice is to see if Scriptware can export some other file type (not necessarily a .scw file) that Screenwriter can read. Sometimes, when I have two text editors whose native formats are incompatible (like opening a paper typed in a new version of Microsoft Word using an old version of WordPerfect or something), I save the file as an RTF file, rather than in the native format. Maybe something like that applies to your situation, too.
Hope that helps.
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