Create secured pdf with word 2007?

[amos]

I've downloaded the save as pdf addin for word 2997, but don't see any
option to create the pdf with security. All I need to do is to make the
document disabled for edits, is that possible? Also, I'm interested in
converting using vba calls, I'm not sure if that's possible but I
suppose so?

 

[Graham Mayor]

The PDF add-in is a basic PDF creation tool, If you want added security, you
will need Acrobat. Maybe when Word 2997 really is available such a facility
will have been added?

PDF security is in any case an illusion, anyone who wished to would have
little difficulty plagiarising a PDF document he can see. It merely slows
the process.

While it is possible to save documents to PDF (using the Microsoft add-in),
it is not directly programmable in the way I suspect you mean.

ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat OutputFileName:= _
"filename.pdf", _
ExportFormat:=wdExportFormatPDF, _
OpenAfterExport:=False, _
OptimizeFor:=wdExportOptimizeForPrint, _
Range:=wdExportAllDocument, From:=1, To:=1, _
Item:=wdExportDocumentContent, _
IncludeDocProps:=True, _
KeepIRM:=True, _
CreateBookmarks:=wdExportCreateHeadingBookmarks, _
DocStructureTags:=True, _
BitmapMissingFonts:=True, _
UseISO19005_1:=False

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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

The latter is possible using the .ExportAsFixedFormat command.

As far as the initial request is concerned, once you give somebody access to
the document, you have ceded control over it.

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[amos]

Thanks for that info.

There are many cases where documents need to be 'locked' as a part of
corporate policy, for instance in the case of medical reports. In these
cases the interest is not to preventing copying or plagiarising
material. The idea is to provide nominal assurance that 'this' is the
report as we issued it, and no one can accidentally alter it, or correct
minor typos etc. If there are typos the phys is supposed to correct and
reissue the document.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The problem is that by providing security people tend to think that it
actually works to secure the document. You cannot 'accidentally' alter a PDF
file whether 'secured' or not. Security that is an illusion is not security.

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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

In such cases, a basic .pdf should then suffice.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[amos]

The problem is that by providing security people tend to think that it
actually works to secure the document. You cannot 'accidentally' alter a PDF
file whether 'secured' or not. Security that is an illusion is not security.

But you could 'clean up' or 'correct' a non-secured pdf, as I mentioned.
I'm not sure where the lines fall in terms of legal responsibility, but
I'm sure 'more' would be considered better, even if 'more' is not bullet
proof.

No one would alter any behavior based on the understanding that one of
these pdfs is 'secured' or not, at least I can't imagine why they would.
It's just that the responsible people feel more is better.

But I admit that I don't know if the pdf being 'secured' is a legal
requirement (medical reports). If anyone knows, I'd appreciate the
input. And I appreciate both of your comments.