How To Prevent Thieves From Stealing Your PDF Ebooks!
There are 2 capital options for attention your PDF file:
OPTION 1: Use Adobe Acrobat’s basal protection.
Adobe Acrobat allows you to set basal aegis for your PDF document. This includes:
* allow/disable the adeptness to archetype argument of document
* allow/disable press of file
* allow/disable alteration document
* crave countersign to accessible certificate (Yes their countersign aegis was burst a few years back, but it’s still able aegis and will accumulate out best people.)
Ideally, to use this advantage you should use Adobe Acrobat, about the aerial bulk may put that out of adeptness of many. Fortunately, there are MANY, MANY bargain PDF creators that will acquiesce you to additionally set some of these permissions.
Overall, advantage 1 is what I alarm “static protection”. Meaning, already you accept the aegis and again administer the file, you cannot change the aegis for those files that are already distributed. For example, you administer a book to Applicant A in December. In January, your relations with the applicant become artificial and you no best appetite them to accept admission to your file. Unfortunately, with changeless protection, you cannot change their admission permissions. It is already “set”.
Though this advantage may acquiesce you to anticipate artful argument aural the file, it does NOT anticipate a user from artful the absolute book and redistributing it to others. Though it may acquiesce you to crave a countersign to admission the file, the countersign can be calmly anesthetized about so anyone can accept access. So it’s not absolutely defended and calmly circumvented. If aegis of your certificate is critical, you should addition aegis application added mechanisms.
OPTION 2: Use a third affair aegis system.
This advantage includes systems that action “real time” ascendancy over your document. “Real time” agency that you accept the adeptness to change or adapt the certificate aegis afterwards it has been delivered to the end user. This is what I accept to focus on as it provides the greatest bulk of aegis and post-distribution control.
Some aloof action basal lock and alleviate ability, while others go into added all-encompassing PDF settings that can be adapted at any point. Here are some things you should be attractive for aback evaluating a PDF aegis system.
1. Does the arrangement action complete protection?
This the aboriginal affair you should attending at because if the aegis is not up to par, move on! You will never alike get to the added points.
When evaluating aegis features, accomplish abiding you analysis anniversary affection out for yourself and don’t consistently booty the company’s chat about protection. Abounding times I accept apparent companies announcement assertive aegis appearance on their website, but in testing, the artefact doesn’t assume to do what is claimed. So, consistently analysis first.
For PDF files, there are some basal areas that any able arrangement charge assure against. In adjustment to be absolutely protected, the PDF aegis arrangement you use MUST:
* Anticipate extenuative a archetype of file.
* Anticipate emailing of book and exporting or extracting pages from file
* Anticipate artful of book from the TEMP folder
* Anticipate artful book and argument to the clipboard
* Anticipate redistilling of the file
* Anticipate unlimited, amoral press of file
* Anticipate admission to book after permission
* Watermark all printed pages
If any arrangement that you attending into does not awning these, I acclaim that you move on to article that does.
2. Can you acquiesce it?
If the arrangement passes the aegis test, the abutting affair you should attending at is the bulk of the system. Is it aural your budget? Can you absolve the amount of this blazon of service? Do you shop for the absolute arrangement and run it on your server, or is it a hosted account that accuse you a account fee. There are pros and cons of both.
If you run the arrangement on your server again you will abstain account fees, but these types of systems usually crave all-encompassing programming and affiliation assignment which can access your all-embracing costs and booty weeks to months afore you get up and running.
If you accept a third affair arrangement that is hosted by addition company, you abstain the affiliation affair as best of these casework can get you up and active in account to hours.
3. Does the arrangement action auto-distribution?
Does it automatically bear your certificate to your barter and audience hands-free? If so, does it accommodate with your acquittal arrangement and/or arcade cart?
4. Is the arrangement flexible?
The abutting affair you should attending at is the flexibility. Does it acquiesce you to abuse and adapt the aegis options to fit your different requirements? The adeptness to adapt things such as affairs icons, chump download emails, acknowledge you pages, etc. makes a big difference.
5. Is there any chump support?
What affectionate of abutment and admonition will you accept aback you acquirement the artefact or service? Is their any affidavit of all appearance and uses? What acceptable is accepting the best arrangement if you don’t apperceive how to use it?
6. Is the Aggregation reliable? Does it assure my data?
Is this aggregation reliable? Do you feel that the the aggregation will shut down, appropriately abrogation your abstracts aloof and/or unprotected? Ask them what measures do they accommodate to ensure that your admonition charcoal adequate in this event? Do they aback up your data? If so, how often?
7. Can you audience the system?
Most companies action a balloon or audience aeon for chargeless or a baby fee. You should consistently try the arrangement out to see it “in action”. Set it up to do absolutely what you are attractive for and see if it works the way you need. Never assurance up or acquirement article that you accept not yet tested.
8. Added questions?
Those are the above criteria, of advance there are added things that you may appetite to accede such as:
* What is their cancellation/refund policy? Do they crave a arrangement or can you assurance up for a ages to ages service?
* Does their arrangement use Acrobat Clairvoyant or addition PDF viewer? If they use Acrobat Reader, do they accept an Adobe DRM authorization which is appropriate for all Acrobat clairvoyant aegis systems?
* Does it acquiesce you to acquaintance your database of users/clients
* Can you consign your user database
There is a lot to accede aback chief on a PDF aegis system. My admonition is Do NOT blitz into it. Because already you accept a arrangement and alpha distributing files application that system, you are ashore with it.
