[Security] Protecting a PDF from editing - Separate "prohibit copying of text and images"
We provide PDF reports to our customers with an image of our signature on it. I want to be able to protect them so people can't edit the form and more importantly copy our signature. But it's inconvenient for us and others to not be able to copy text after protecting the PDF. Please separate this security option.
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First of all, the permissions you are talking about are specified in the PDF ISO specification. Requesting such a change in Acrobat, therefore, only makes sense after an update to the specification with such separated security options.
Furthermore, in particular bitmap graphics (I assume by "signature" you mean a a scan of a signature on paper) can be easily copied using a screen capture program, so even if copying images were not permitted in Acrobat, people can get a copy of your signature as a screen shot.