Smart way to disable right click on "image pages"?

Giovanni,

Thanks for writing this. I don’t get to check this as often as email, so sorry for the delay. I don’t think many others check it either…

I don’t know the details for disabling right-click, but according to jQuery documentation, something like this might work:

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery(“div.pdfemb-viewer”).bind(“contextmenu”, function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
});
});

I have considered adding this functionality to the plugin, and may still do. Let me know how it works for you if you can figure it out!

Let me know by email if possible – [email protected]

Regards,

Dan

Dan,

I am also very interested in this, as I have a similar problem to Giovanni’s.

In fact, this might be a make-or-break feature for my client.

I was checking the demo page for the Secure version on your site some time ago. Back then, I don’t think there were any right-click options in the embedded PDF area.

Today, I decided to take the plunge, bought the Secure plugin, and installed it. Afterwards, while testing, I found that the right-click options Giovanni was mentioning were showing. This got me bummed out, as now the usefulness of the entire thing for my client comes into question. The visitors can download and stitch together the protected PDFs with relative ease.

Adding the functionality to disable this behavior would save me.

Thanks in advance and all the best,

Miljan

THanks for all your hard work, Where would we put the this code. If we can protect our .pdf’s we’d upgrade as well…

OK, due to popular demand I have added this as an option (defaulting to off) in the latest version of PDF Embedder Secure (v2.4.5 released just now).

You can check the option in Settings -> PDF Embedder / Secure tab to disable globally as a default for all secure embeds, or add disablerightclick=”on” to your shortcode to add the functionality for one specific embed.

But please note that it will still be possible to take screenshots – I think it is very important that your clients understand what the plugin really does. It makes it very difficult to casually share the PDF, but it can never be impossible for the viewer to obtain the information if they really want. Even without technical knowledge, they could simply write down every word of your PDF after all!

In particular, Miljan should consider what happens if his client discovers that, while right-clicks are now disabled, it is actually possible to piece together screenshots…

For existing customers, the latest version should show up in your Plugins page over the next hours/days (use this plugin to force an update).

New customers can purchase PDF Embedder Secure here.

With any questions, please get in touch via email: [email protected]

Thank you to everyone for the suggestion.

Dan

Hey,

First of all, great plugin and congrats for the fast replies.

I only have 1 issue with this update. It seems to only work with IE/Edge… I still get the save as option when using Chrome/Firefox.

Thanks, and keep up the good work.

Dan,

Thank you for the quick resolution of this issue.

Now everything works as it should!

All the best, and keep up the good work!

Thank you very very much Dan!

Works perfectly. The new feature is working. No more easy right-click to download the image. No more easy right-click to view source. The only way a PC user can resort to now is by going through the browsers menu (or knowing the key shortcut, like F12 for Chrome) to open the “code inspection mode”.

New question. I did not even find a “page image” in the code inspection; just found the canvas. Within all the resources, all the other images on the page (logos, button images…) were available, as usual, but there was no image in the resources list to the canvas’s page image. Am I crazy? Am I looking at the wrong place? Or is the page image really not available for download not even in the “code inspection mode” resources now? If, yes … this is wonderful.

BTW … in case anyone who reads this thread might wonder… In my case, I always use the full screen mode (the user has a very small preview image to click on an open the e-book on full screen), so the whole screen (canvas) is unclickable with the right mouse button. I did not test cases in which the canvas in embedded only partially in the screen. But if anyone uses the full screen mode, I can atest the new no right-click feature works perfectly.

best regards,
Giovanni