Programmatically Turn Off Printing (Acrobat 6.0)

[cduvall@adobeforums.com]

Hello.

I'm searching (fruitlessly so far) for an option to turn off printing on a PDF. I've gone down multiple avenues and have come up empty to date.

My company is using Documentum SCS and Content Transformation Services (Documentum) to export/convert files to PDF format in a readable location. Through our normal process, we place an overlay on the document using another product, which indicates the status of the file (approved/effective). Since we cannot use the overlay when exporting in this fashion, we've settled on disabling printing for the PDFs.

The preferred solution would be using CTS to set the security, however I don't have a lot of confidence in that solution just yet.

The second preferred method would be for CTS to run a piece of VBS code post-export, which takes the PDFs and sets them to noprint.

The last resort would be to create a Windows service using .NET that waits for new files in the directory and sets them to noprint.

Any solutions to programmatically setting noprint? Any feedback on the path being taken?

Thanks in advance!

[PDL@adobeforums.com]

If you're looking for a fully automated solution, Acrobat will not be an option.

The only fully automated option Adobe provides would be Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES, which you can read about here:
<http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/rightsmanagement/>

If you are interested in a Documentum-direct solution, you would probably get best results asking on some Documentum forums. Most users here work specifically with the Acrobat SDK ( it being an Adobe forum :) ).

[cduvall@adobeforums.com]

I was hoping for something through VBS (SDK...). I managed to write an application in C# with the help of the iTextSharp library that did precisely what I wanted, but the overhead of custom code at this company is quite incredible.

Thanks.