We need to set up a page to make some highly confidential documents (PDF, Excel, Word) available for viewing only.
The page/documents needs to be as secure as possible (no save, no print etc). We recon that we can’t stop print-screen, but hopefully we can limit most of the other options.
How do you best do this? I have currently only two options that I am considering:
- Open the documents inside an IFrame and experiment with javascript and css
- Create a viewer in Silverlight (or Flash)
If any of you have some ideas on how to achieve this, please tell me. It will be much appreciated!
Word and Excel don’t offer a lot of security. I would convert everything you want secured into a PDF and use something like the PDF viewer referenced in this question: Flash document viewer. It’s an open source plugin that will allow you to disable save and print and should go a long way towards deterring users from attempting to copy the documents.