WHAT IS DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM) PROTECTION
Digital Rights Management is a far-reaching term that refers to any scheme that controls access to copyrighted material using technological means. In essence, DRM removes usage control from the person in possession of digital content and puts it in the hands of the copyright owner.
WHAT ARE PDFE FILES?
All-About-PDF’s PDFe files are PDF documents that have been protected with encryption and DRM to include features such an expiry date, geolocation lock (where a document can only be viewed in specific regions), IP address lock (the document can only be viewed by users connected to a specific network), remote kill-switch ability (the document author can remote render the document invalid) and more. In a nutshell, they allow the document author to specify when and where the PDF document is no longer valid.
These features are very valuable to authors of valuable intellectual property such as online course materials, engineering designs, architecture drawings etc. This allows the authors to share their copyrighted material while maintaining full access control to their intellectual property.
In order to maintain high security, the PDFe file specification is proprietary to All-About-PDF and can only be opened by our special document readers.
HOW TO OPEN AND VIEW PDFE FILES
Once a PDFe file has been created in All-About-PDF, there are three ways of opening and viewing it.
iOS and iPadOS PDFe Viewer
Using the free PDFe Viewer for Windows: you can be download this from our downloads page
Using the free iOS and iPad app: this can be downloaded from the Apple Apple Store
Using our free online PDFe viewer: you may access the online PDFe Viewer using Chrome web browser at this address.
All of the above methods of viewing PDFe documents do not allow saving or printing of the original PDF document.
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