PDF file download and view setting in Dspace Xmlui 6.3

[Umeshwar Rai]

Any one please help

How do i disable downloading and print button from browser when the pdf file is open in browser on click of view/open button

Regards,

Umeshwar

[Ayuka Phanuel]

What will prevent people from taking photos or screenshot of the file they can view and print later? 

The best solution in my opinion is to restrict files access (read permissions) using bitstream embargo policies. 

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[Mark H. Wood]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 06:57:57PM +0300, Ayuka Phanuel wrote:
> What will prevent people from taking photos or screenshot of the file they
> can view and print later?

Indeed, what will prevent someon using 'curl', 'wget' or a
custom-written Python script to get a copy of the PDF on disk, using
the tool's options to send appropriate headers to say that it is
Firefox or Edge or the like? Such tools don't include Javascript, so
there is no way for the server to (attempt to) disable anything.

HTTP simply does not give control of what the client may do with a
resource, once it has been delivered. It could not, because the
client cannot be trusted. The server is limited to choosing whether
to provide the resource, or not.

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