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It looks like the Enhanced Viewer add-on to the GDE plug-in may not get revised soon. Has anyone tried this:

https://www.artistscope.com/copysafe_pdf_protection_wordpress_plugin.asp

This has the attraction of being compatible with WP. It has the disadvantage of being fairly expensive. This is why I am asking if anyone has given the trial version a try. I not sophisticated enough in programming or software design to know if this will give us a “read only” webpage that is displaying a pdf document in the Google Document Reader plug-in. It may require a different reader?

Thanks!

Can the program code for the EV be shared with Dan Lester so that the “no print” (cache=”0″) and “no download” (save=”0″) features can be restored? These features prevent theft of our newsletters and research. We want people to view them, but not copy them. I am not a programmer and do not know what level of effort this would involve or how long it might take.

The new GDE does produce nice images with the viewer, no complaints here.

Kevin, you are the wizard who made GDE so effective for our website with the Enhanced Viewer. You will be sorely missed. Thank you for your contributions and service to the WP community.

My apologies to Kevin. My frustration was directed towards Google, not Kevin. I now understand he too was trying to respond to a major change in Google’s program so we all could continue to use the document viewer. It is interesting that Google Books website has the ability to post images of books that cannot be downloaded, printed or copied. This is why I assumed Google developed the GDE and EV. Again, my apologies to Kevin.

Ausbushman et al., the removal of the enhance viewer has basically shut down the most important part of our website. The loss of “no print” and “no save” features were critical to the posting of our pdfs. Does anyone know who and how to contact at Google about the enhanced viewer? This might be a case of unintended consequences. However, I don’t see the problem with, risk of, or liability from having the old version of GDE+EV available to those who can use it. It worked perfectly for us. It is really inconsiderate, impolite, and harmful to pull a plug-in without first telling users what you are doing and when you expect to have it fixed or replaced; better yet, an alternative if it takes more than 30 days to remedy.

I will comment that it seems strange that WP does not have control or some kind of agreement or understanding with vendors who contribute plug-ins to their WP site. When developers delete a feature they can really hurt some users like me. I also don’t understand why the previous version of GDE-EV can’t continue to be used by those of us who depend on it. I don’t see the risk to WP or Google in doing this. No explanation was offered by Google for the deletion of the EV function. No comment was made as to when it might be restored either. So, I too am looking for a reliable alternative. For example, is it possible to disable the print and save icons on the tool bar that appears at the bottom of a document being viewed?

I do not know what Carmel339 is referencing in pdf7.5. Is this a plug-in? Adobe Acrobat (not the reader) can do almost anything you want to a pdf document, but is of no help in preventing download or printing from a website.

Earlier this year, a very competent person at Lunarpages was able to create a website for us that utilized the Google Document Embedder (GDE) plug-in for WP that had “Enhanced” features that would prevent both downloading and printing of a pdf document viewed on their reader/viewer. It worked perfectly until Google revised the GDE plugin. So, you can have pdf documents that are “read only” on your website. Member CMSHelpLive (above) has it correct, the code to prevent downloading is save=”0″ and for printing it is cache=”0″ This is all it prevents, but it works! Or, I should say it did work up until a week ago before Google killed it. This has caused us a great deal of frustration and not endeared us to Google. Does anyone know if Google offers the “enhanced” version commercially? We need this restored as soon as possible.