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November 16, 2018
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Restrict Printing and download

  • November 16, 2018
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Greetings,

I would like to create an Org level Group within a context that has restricted printing and downloading permissions. I see the ACL's to restrict downloading, but don't seem to see how one would prevent them from printing a document.

 

Our documents are PDFs, we are also restricting this Group from seeing any source documents.

 

Any ideas about restricting printing?  I'm assuming it has to be in Creo View.


- James - 
Windchill 11.0 M030 CPS08
WGM 11.0 M030
Inventor Pro 2017
Windows 10

Best answer by TomU

Bummer.  I just did some searching and found this, which says the same thing:

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS177324

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TomU23-Emerald IV
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November 17, 2018

It is possible to restrict printing from Creo View.  Take a look at this article:

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS32479

 

I do not know if this still works when a PDF is opened from Adobe Reader inside Creo View.

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    JHall1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    November 19, 2018

    Thanks, @TomU

     

    I'll check into that.  Also, it seems that if there was a PDF as Primary Content in a WTDocument, if you could download it, then, as you say, it would open in Adobe Reader, and you have the ability to print and save as from there.  I might have to restrict downloading of PDF's completely.

     

    James

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    TomU23-Emerald IV
    23-Emerald IV
    November 19, 2018

    It seems like you should be able to control access to the representation separately from the primary content download.  See https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS67396

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    TomU23-Emerald IV
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    November 17, 2018

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