Description: After doing "Export As/ Export as PDF / Security / Set Passwords / [uncheck Enable Copying] / Set Permission Password / Confirm / OK / Export / Save", then opening the resulting pdf with Sumatra, I can select and copy at will. This is particularly important with official signed documents, because my signature can then be freely copied and pasted. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Export As/ Export as PDF / Security / Set Passwords / [uncheck Enable Copying] / Set Permission Password / Confirm / OK / Export / Save 2.Open with Sumatra 3. Actual Results: Content can be freely copied. Expected Results: Copying denied. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: When I restarted in safe mode and repeated the operation, I did notice that "Enable copying of content" was enabled by default. However, unchecking it made no difference to the final result: after exporting, I could still copy freely in Sumatra.
*** Bug 154329 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Seems a complicated case. Edge respect it. Chrome for copy, but let's use it for search. Firefox lets copy. Acrobat reader respect the restrictions. I'm not sure if it is a LO issue. Looks like a duplicate of tdf#49697
Can see that LO-generated password-protected pdfs may perform differently in different viewers. That certainly sounds complicated. Don't see how this is duplicates tdf#49697 though. Checked: Copy-protected in Acrobat, Foxit Not protected in Firefox, Sumatra, Avast Secure Browser, Edge, Interestingly, the file is not protected in LO. I get a box requiring a password for a temp file, but just hitting Enter opens the pdf, which is then not copy-protected.
As our documentation states[1]: "The restrictions that limit copying, editing or printing depend on the reader software to obey them, so the security they provide is limited." It would be good to see if a copy-protected PDF from MS Office opens the same in Sumatra, but the issue related to copying is centralised on closed bug 95424 and I suspect the answer is the same for Sumatra. Other related reports are bug 141237 and bug 127914. [1]: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/shared/01/ref_pdf_export_security.html *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 95424 ***