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What Does This PDF Allow
See what a PDF says readers may and may not do with it.
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How it works
Reports which actions the document permits — printing, copying, commenting, filling forms. The important thing to understand is that these are requests. They are recorded in the file and honoured by well-behaved readers; a reader that ignores them does so trivially. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than as protection.
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Questions
- Are permissions enforced?
- No. They are honoured by convention. A reader that ignores them does so easily.
- So what are they for?
- Preventing accidents and stating intent, not preventing determined copying.
- Can I remove them?
- Not with PDFdesk. Doing so would be helping people ignore a document owner's wishes.