851285 - Version 19.0 Firefox Native PDF Viewer Allows Printing a Secured PDF that is set to not allow printing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 792816

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[mikesmith.4123]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130215130331

Steps to reproduce:

Using an <object> or <iframe> tag, when viewing an embedded PDF (as part of a web page), a secured PDF that is set to not allow printing can be printed by Firefox's Native PDF viewer (Tools -> Options -> Portable Document Format (PDF) [Preview in Firefox]). Setting Firefox to use [Use Adobe Acrobat (in Firefox)] corrects this. The PDF was created by Acrobat and will not allow printing in Adobe software (among other compliant software).


Actual results:

Using the PDF menu created by Firefox, the document can be printed.


Expected results:

The PDF menu should not allow the document to be printed when the "no printing" option is set in the PDF.

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

There is no such thing as a "secured PDF" in the real world. A decision on the topic is to be made in bug 792816, though I would hope this nonsense were not to be reintroduced. Adobe doesn't own PDF anymore and the very idea of DRM on text and images is just silly.

Comment 2

[mikesmith.4123]

I have made a reply in bug 792816.