Configuring Document and Application Security |
Several security measures are available in BarTender to help you protect your documents and to regulate your printing environment. Security in BarTender is highly customizable, ranging from simple document protection to more complex user permission systems. To help you decide which methods are most appropriate for your environment, refer to the BarTender System Security technical document for a comprehensive description of all the available security measures. This document is located at the following Seagull Scientific web page:
https://www.seagullscientific.com/resources/white-papers/
All of the BarTender security settings fall into one of the following categories:
Application-level security limits someone's ability to run or administer BarTender as an application. For example, when you apply a print-only password, you can limit a user's ability to modify every document in BarTender.
Document-level security affects only a single document. These security settings are stored with the document, so moving the document to another computer does not affect the document's security settings. Examples include defining a document password or encrypting a document.
The following application-level security methods are available:
Print-Only Password: A print-only password locks BarTender so that without the password, users have limited access to the BarTender design functionality. This is the quickest security method to set up but also the most easily defeated.
User Permissions: By using Administration Console, a companion application to BarTender, administrators can restrict user access for different actions across the BarTender Suite. For BarTender, administrators can prevent users from making configuration changes, modifying documents, or printing.
The following document-level security methods are available:
BarTender Document Password: A BarTender document password protects various aspects of a document from all users who don't know the password. These protected actions include opening the document, modifying the design, or changing VBScripts.
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Document passwords cannot be recovered if they are lost. This means that if the password is lost after you configure your document to have a document password, you are likely to be unable to use that document again. |
Document Encryption: By enabling document encryption in Administration Console, administrators prevent unauthorized users from accessing encrypted documents on unsecured computers. If an encrypted document is moved to a different computer, it cannot be opened unless Administration Console is also installed on that computer and someone has defined the same key on that computer that was used to encrypt the document.