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Is it possible to restrict download and print of PDF files in SharePoint online?
Hi, I have selected the view only permission level in SharePoint. This allows me to restrict downloads for MS office documents only. However, I want to be able to restrict download and print of P...
And I have found, if you prevent the ability to download a PDfF you can still print it, which circumvents the download restriction as you can print it to another PDF etc etc.
Turning on Information Rights Management does stop the ability to print the PDF, but then you can not read it in the browser as someone else has pointed out above.
Office documents are fine, but PDF docs are a real issue, as people use PDF now for lots of valid reasons.
thayes2021 We have a restricted/limited site for a certain type of user and every file is a PDF file.
This is still an issue in 2023, no built in way to view PDF files even though modern browsers would support it.
- Major miss by Microsoft on this. Stop catering to only Office type documents. We just had to use DropBox (blech!) to accomplish this.
