Protect an office document using PDF format

 

All documents, that are printable, like Word or Visio can be protected by creating a PDF file. See details PDF protection. This is the recommended and most flexible option.

 

Office 2007 comes with a free Add-In, which creates a PDF file and it supports hyperlinks. Just select File, Save As PDF. If this option is missing, you can download the Add-In here or search in the Word Online help for PDF.

 

If you do not have any PDF tool, download PDF creator: http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator/

 

 

 

Protect an office document using a printer driver for flash conversion

 

A different way to protect office documents, is to convert it to flash using a printer driver. It is called Print2Flash and can be downloaded and bought at http://print2flash.com. It has not all the options the PDF Viewer offers but it requires no installation with administration rights on the end user PC.

 

 

 

Download a sample - the Multimedia Protector Tutorial with over 200 pages and links inside the PDF document - converted with Flashpaper - Click here to download and unzip the file to a folder. Start mp-flashpaper.exe.

 

 

Protect an office document using SWF Generator

This tool allows to convert PDF, jpg, gif, png, and wav files to SWF. Hyperlinks within PDF files are supported. First create a PDF file and then convert the PDF to flash using SWF Generator.

 

It has not all the options the PDF Viewer offers but it requires no installation with administration rights on the end user PC.

 

 

See also
 
Word with Hyperlink