Hi Dave--
I'm not sure about 5.3, but I know in 5.4 you can control these options
by setting up a custom PDF config file. I don't have a copy of 5.3
handy, so I'm afraid you'll have to check for yourself if these options
are available there as well. See the extensive comments in the pdfconfig
DTD file (found in $EDITOR/doctypes/pdfconfig/pdfconfig.dtd) for details
on how to set attributes to control the various security settings.
Here's a snippet from the 5.4 version:
Acrobat allows certain features to be restricted in its UI. The
features that can be disabled are:
* noprint: Acrobat will prevent printing the file.
* nomodify: Acrobat will prevent users from adding form
fields or making any other changes.
* nocopy: Acrobat will prevent copying and extracting
text or graphics, and will disable the
accessibility interface
* noannots: Acrobat will prevent adding or changing
comments or form fields.
* noforms: Acrobat will prevent form field filling, even
if noannots has not been specified.
* noaccessible: Acrobat will prevent extracting text or
graphics for accessibility purposes (such as a
screenreader program)
* noassemble: Acrobat will prevent inserting, deleting, or
rotating pages and creating bookmarks and
thumbnails, even if nomodify has not been
specified.
* nohiresprint: Acrobat will prevent high-resolution printing.
If noprint has not been specified printing is
restricted to the 'print as image' feature
which prints a low-resolution rendition of
the page.
--Clay
Clay Helberg
Senior Consultant
TerraXML
