[scribus] Protecting pages on PDF forms

[Benjamin Dumke]

Luis Eva Ferreira schrieb:
> I list
> I wish to ask for helpon the following topic
> I am new to Scribus, I am 0 (zero)  in programming, so I hope you will
> forgive me my ignorance on the this subject.
> I've created a very simple document in Scribus to convert into PDF.
> It is a 5 pages document,  each one is a form. The document must be fill
> by each of my 5 departments, each have their own page / form to fill and
> save in PDF using
> the PDF-Xchange Viewer, not to print.
> I wonder if I can protect each one of the pages, (for example with a
> different password for each page) so that each departmente can only 
> fill or changed is own page / form.
> Or alternatively protected by password, or other method, each field of
> the forms.
> Thank you
> Luisef
> 

No, that is not going to work. PDF encryption only works document-wide
(at least in the older PDF versions; I don't know about newer ones, but
Scribus doesn't create those anyway).


Ben