stoyleg

Thanks to all for the advice.

Thanks for the reply. At the moment I have a system which dynamically writes values into Word docs via a web form, after which the user downloads the document. I could actually re-write it so it writes to a PDF instead, but trying to avoid this as it will take time...although it's looking like it may be the only way.

Is it possible to protect/encrypt Word documents (ie. make them read-only) that reside on a server using PHP, so that when a user downloads them they can't edit them? You can do it with this but I'm looking for a free solution if that's possible?