wonderland
Mar '17

Hello, I would like to test blocking the print option of the pdfs. "If you do not want the buyer to be able to print your PDF, replace &pdf_allow_print=y with &pdf_allow_print=n"



My questions:

- Is its sifficuent if I make this code change on the seller admin? Or do I additionally need to renew the add-to-cart / buy-now codes of my product?

- Would the buyes be able to do print-pdf? If yes, disallowing printing does not make much sense. I don't remember having ever opened a pdf where I could not do print-as-pdf and then make a printout of that.



I am not sure if disallowing print makes sense; just want to understand what's possible.



Thank you very much!

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E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Mar '17

All you'd have to do is make the change in your item's Product Notification URL setting; your existing purchase button codes in your site would pick up that change automatically.



These copy-paste and print restrictions depend on the buyer's PDF reader app respecting them -- e.g., Apple's Preview app for the Mac has been known to ignore the copy-paste restriction. If the reader app respects the print restriction, it should not allow printing at all, neither to a physical printer nor to a PDF "virtual printer", since those both use the same Print function in the app/OS. Generally we don't recommend using these restrictions anyway, as they make for an unsatisfactory customer experience if they can't do common things they'd normally expect to be able to do with any file on their computer.