How do I compile a "flat" pdf?

How do I compile a "flat" pdf?

[Bomber K.]

Hi guys,

I am trying to create a pdf which contains some graphics that I created. 
I want to pass my PDF digitally but I don't want users to be able to 
right-click on a gfx and save it. I think this is called "flattening".
Is there a way in CTX to create such a file or do I have to recompile 
the PDF with 3rd party software?
Is there maybe even a way to flatten only specific objects like, only 
one picture of many or all, and leave form fields unflattened?

Thanks, Sebastian
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Re: How do I compile a "flat" pdf?

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2016-10-07 um 10:39 schrieb Bomber K. <axteffekt@gmail.com>:

> I am trying to create a pdf which contains some graphics that I created. I want to pass my PDF digitally but I don't want users to be able to right-click on a gfx and save it. I think this is called "flattening".

No. Flattening PDFs means to "burn in" comments and the contents of form fields from editable to page content.

> Is there a way in CTX to create such a file or do I have to recompile the PDF with 3rd party software?

The only way to "protect" contents from editing are the password settings. There are free tools to set them, but AFAIK no open source tools except maybe libraries.
There’s also pdfcrack to find out passwords.

> Is there maybe even a way to flatten only specific objects like, only one picture of many or all, and leave form fields unflattened?

Not at all.


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Re: How do I compile a "flat" pdf?

[Hans Hagen]

On 10/7/2016 4:50 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> The only way to "protect" contents from editing are the password settings. There are free tools to set them, but AFAIK no open source tools except maybe libraries.

qpdf and mutools


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Re: How do I compile a "flat" pdf?

[Alan Braslau]

Also pdftk

But, it is naive to believe that a pdf can be "protected" from copying or extracting, isn't it?

Alan

> On Oct 7, 2016, at 09:08, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 10/7/2016 4:50 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> 
>> The only way to "protect" contents from editing are the password settings. There are free tools to set them, but AFAIK no open source tools except maybe libraries.
> 
> qpdf and mutools

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Re: How do I compile a "flat" pdf?

[Hans Hagen]

On 10/9/2016 3:32 AM, Alan Braslau wrote:
> Also pdftk
>
> But, it is naive to believe that a pdf can be "protected" from copying or extracting, isn't it?

indeed, in a similar fashion as copy protected cd (by making then fagile 
for reading on computers) ... 100 years form now they will either laugh 
at us or wonder if we could not do better than that

> Alan
>
>> On Oct 7, 2016, at 09:08, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/7/2016 4:50 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>>
>>> The only way to "protect" contents from editing are the password settings. There are free tools to set them, but AFAIK no open source tools except maybe libraries.
>>
>> qpdf and mutools
>
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