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Make Word docs read-only using PHP


stoyleg

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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.

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Anything you do of this nature is going to be proprietary and ultimately unreliable. You can not "give" a digital asset of any kind to someone and also make it non-editable.

 

If people really want to edit something, they will find a way. Just pointing that out----

 

 

With that said, I agree that for dissemination of documents, PDF's are a much better solution than word documents, which require the user to have a compatible version of office.

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