Security Setting

Security has always been the most important issue in every field, be it the protection of a network or a PDF document. Documents are made secure for many possible reasons: the writer of the document may like to keep the content of the document safe and doesn’t want to allow others to change it, etc.

Aspose.PDF for Reporting Services has taken much care of such security aspects by providing these features to developers that can be useful for them to protect their PDF documents. Therefore, it contains a number of parameters that allow developers to apply different security measures to PDF documents.

One of these measures is to password protect the PDF document during encryption. You can also restrict or allow contents modification, copying the content, document printing or allow/disable form filling. These features are at this time not supported by the default SQL Reporting Services PDF Exporter but you can implement these features using Aspose.PDF for Reporting Services. Just add corresponding security parameters to a report or a report server configuration file, and you will be able to create secure PDF documents with limited privileges.

Currently, Aspose.PDF for Reporting Services renderer supports following security attributes:

Parameter Name: User Password  
Date Type: String  
Values supported: Any plain text

Parameter Name: Master Password  
Date Type: String  
Values supported: Any plain text 

Parameter Name: IsCopyingAllowed  
Date Type: Boolean  
Values supported: True, False (default) 

Parameter Name: IsPrintingAllowed  
Date Type: Boolean  
Values supported: True, False (default)  

Parameter Name: IsContentsModifyingAllowed  
Date Type: Boolean  
Values supported: True, False (default) 

Parameter Name: IsFormFillingAllowed  
Date Type: Boolean  
Values supported: True, False (default)  

Example

<Render>
…
    <Extension Name="APPDF" Type="Aspose.Pdf.ReportingServices.Renderer,Aspose.Pdf.ReportingServices">
    <Configuration>
    <UserPassword>aspose</UserPassword>
    <IsCopyingAllowed>False</IsCopyingAllowed>
    <IsPrintingAllowed>False</IsPrintingAllowed>
    </Configuration>
    </Extension>
</Render>