SAS System Options

PDFCONTENT System Option

Specifies whether the contents of a PDF document can be changed.

Requirement:	Adobe Acrobat Reader or Professional 3.0 and later versions
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window
Category:	Log and procedure output control: PDF
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	PDF

Syntax
Syntax Description
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See Also

Syntax

PDFCONTENT | NOPDFCONTENT

Syntax Description

PDFCONTENT: specifies that the contents of a PDF document can be changed.
NOPDFCONTENT: specifies that the contents of a PDF document cannot be changed.

Details

When the PDFSECURITY option is set to either LOW or HIGH, SAS sets the PDFCONTENT option. If the PDFSECURITY option is set to NONE, this option is not functional and the PDF document can be changed.

The following document properties are set for this option:

Value of PDFCONTENT	Value of PDFSECURITY	Document Properties
PDFCONTENT	HIGH	Page Extraction and Commenting are set to Not Allowed.
NOPDFCONTENT	Not applicable	Changing the Document and Document Assembly are both set to Not Allowed.