Using the Rights Management service, you can create policies
and apply those policies to documents. A policy is a collection
of information that includes confidentiality settings and a list
of authorized users. You can specify who can open a document, limit
how they can use it, and monitor the document after it is distributed.
You can also dynamically control access to a document and revoke access
to the document.
The Rights Management service protects PDF files and other file
types such as these:
Policies can be applied to PDF documents programmatically using
the Rights Management Service API, or as part of a process. Policies
can also be applied to documents by using a client application.
The procedures for how to apply policies to PDF documents are described
in detail in Acrobat Help. Applying policies
by using other applications, such as Microsoft Office, is documented
in the Rights Management Extension Help for the application.
You can download the LiveCycle Rights Management Extension for Microsoft
Office from the Adobe website.
Administrators use the Rights Management web pages to do the
following tasks (see LiveCycle Administration Console Help):
Configure various Rights Management service settings
Manage policy-protected documents
Create and manage policy sets and the policies that they
contain
Monitor events that Rights Management records
Manage invited and local users
You can use Workbench to develop processes to do the following
tasks (see Workbench Help):
Create policies from templates or update existing policies
Apply policies to documents, switch policies, or remove policy
security
Get license identifiers, revoke licenses, or unrevoke licenses
Get all policy set names or all policy names within a policy
set
Get policy by policy identifier
Inspect a protected document
Unlock policy-protected PDF documents
You can use the Rights Management Service API to develop client
applications to do the following tasks (see Programming with LiveCycle):
Create, modify, or delete policies
Apply policies to or remove policies from PDF documents
Revoke or reinstate access to PDF documents
Create watermarks
Search for events
Open policy-protected documents in batch mode
Retrieve information about policy-protected documents
