Acrobat Reader and PDF Files

[Andy]

PWB is fantastic! I had it recommended to me by several sources and after 1 day of messing around with it I fully concur that it is essential for your library.

My question relates to subscription websites that have .pdf files: The acrobat reader is launched through PWB, but it also adds the adobe shortcut toolbars including the "Save" button.

Do you know of any way to avoid this or to lock down Adobe Acrobat Reader?

Thanks for your help,

Andy

[spragers]

If you are using 2000 or XP, there are registry tweaks that will prevent a user from being able to browse selected drives. I have been looking for a way to do this in NT but that particular registry item isn't supported.

Looks like we'll be upgrading to XP over the next year or two though, so here's one possibility:

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1157/

Prevent Access to the Contents of Selected Drives (Windows 2000/Me/XP)

This restriction prevents users from using My Computer or Explorer to access the content of selected drives. Also, they cannot use Run, Map Network Drive, or the Dir command to view the directories on these drives.

Open your registry and find or create the key below.

The "NoViewOnDrive" value uses a 32-bit bitmask to define local and network drive access for each logical drive in the computer. The lower 26 bits of the 32-bit word correspond to drive letters A through Z. Drives are visible when set to 0 and hidden when set to 1.

If your not happy working in Hex, add these decimal numbers to hide the drive(s):

A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 8, E: 16, F: 32, G: 64, H: 128, I: 256, J: 512, K: 1024, L: 2048, M: 4096, N: 8192, O: 16384, P: 32768, Q: 65536, R: 131072, S: 262144, T: 524288, U: 1048576, V: 2097152, W: 4194304, X: 8388608, Y: 16777216, Z: 33554432, ALL: 67108863

For example to hide drive A and drive D, you would add 1 (A) + 8 (D) which means the value should be set to "9".

To disable all the drives set the value to "67108863".

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

Restart Windows for the change to take effect.

[Andy]

Thanks for the tips. Currently I am using the "NoDrives" registry entry to disable drives and the "NoEntireNetwork" to disable browsing our network from the Save window.

I actually want to disable the Acrobat Reader toolbars so you can't hit the "Save" and MORE IMPORTANTLY to disable that horrible "Visit Adobe on the World Wide Web" button that launches IE.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Andy

[Andy Again]

Well I found this crazy document that begins the path down programming in javascript how to disable buttons. That's all pops and buzzes to me so I just right clicked on iexplore.exe and under the security tab disabled all access for the user (Patron).

PWB still works and clicking on the "Visit Adobe on the World Wide Web" has no effect whatsoever.

Toolbars or no toolbars my Patron Terminals seem to be locked down tight with the help of PWB.

Thanks,

Andy

[spragers]

If you simply want to disable the button from launching IE, use the ManageIE tool found on the downloads page. Once you install it, Internet Explorer cannot run. Any IE window that opens will be instantly closed. Works great!

As for the Save button - no idea. I looked in the registry under the Adobe settings but it's all just garbage in there

[philip - Long Beach NY]

Also,
I know that Scott is still working on the restricted save to work a little better when saving email attachments like Hotmail;

http://www.teamsoftwaresolutions.com/ph ... c.php?t=64

Hopefully he might be able to implement the same when working with Acrobat Reader.