I'm going to write a site that lets users to view pdf files but I don't want them to save the files to their own hard drive due to the copy right law. I'm researching how to view it by using PHP, but I have no idea how to disable user not to download the files.
In above image it shows Embed that will be the code. And Download or Print option is not available on this. Google dosc can prevent download but its allow to Save to Drive option. Then in drive i can download it. But
Google books not allow any of that.
in view
Method 02
Using Google Drive
Right click on pdf and goto
Share(below image)
Then go to Advanced option in left bottom
Tick Both check boxes. After copy embed link and paste it to your src.
No download and Save drive option is not allowed
You can't prevent your visitors from downloading, copying or scrapping anything you're outputting to their browsers. If they can view it they can always screenshot it. Which brings in the optimal solution to your problem: Simply offer image copies of your documents instead of actual PDF files. You can convert
/ mass convert PDF files to JPEG easily with Photoshop.
answered May 4, 2012 at 2:45
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I hope I am not very late to reply. But here's is something you can do to prevent the users. Use iFrame to display your PDF and make sure that you are displaying using Google. I used the following code :
Here you can simply change the url=http://www.tutorialspoint.com/php/php_tutorial.pdf and replace it by your own URL where you kept your PDF.
