PDF Security for Training Materials/Courseware
Training materials and courseware are highly valuable documents. It is important they cannot be
copied, plaigiarised or fall into the wrong hands. Drumlin can deal with this issue in
an extremely simple and cost-effective manner.
Typically the
Drumlin Pro+
edition is used. This enables very large numbers of secured PDFs
(e.g. 100s or 1000s) to be created automatically, with a full set of security
facilities applied - not simply strong encryption of the documents, but also
date expiry, user-specific watermarking of any printout permitted, prevention of
various forms of copying and similar controls. Secured PDFs are given the
additional extensions .DRM or .DRMX depending on how they are generated. Details
of how Drumlin can be used for such publishing are provided in the
Welcome
document.
Security with 'pre-authorization' for registered users
(.DRM files): Some customers choose to create DRM files which have
been pre-defined to be readable only by a specific set of users. These users
pre-register a copy of the free Drumlin software (or have it pre-installed and
registered for them). They provide their registration ID to the training
department or company. A list of users is created as a text file and then
the relevant PDF files are converted using the Drumlin "Publish New Document"
feature into fully secured files which can only be read by this list of
users. The documents can then be provided to all these users, without concern
that they might be copied elsewhere, as they are unreadable on any computer
other than those selected. This can also be carried out for a single individual,
creating a document at the time required or requested, by publishing it just for
that person (i.e. that userID).
Security with 'post-registration
authorization' (.DRMX files): Other training operations do not know in advance what
the IDs of their users will be. In this case the fully secured DRMX method is
used. Each PDF file is converted by the Drumlin software to a fully secured version
called a DRMX file. This can be sent to anyone and is completely secure. To
read the document or documents the user must have an authorization code. They install
and register Drumlin, as described above. They download (or receive on CD/by
email) the DRMX file or files they require, and send an email request to the
engineering company asking or paying for an authorization code for the document(s).
The central service provides the code (by email or automated delivery) and the
customer uses the File menu, Authorize option, to convert the DRMX file to
a fully readable DRM file, as before. This is a one-time process. Connection to
the internet is required when authorization takes place, as this uses the
central DRM facility to check the code is valid, and if so, the undertake the
final generation of the readable DRM file that the user will read
thereafter.
For more details please
contact
us with your requirements
Thank you!