Secure PDF

Maintained by Yedidia Klein

Share your PDF to students without letting them to download or save it.

Free

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Supports Moodle 3.1-4.5 See all versions

Latest release: 1 year ago

Installations: 966

Downloads (last 90 days): 164

Frankenstyle name: mod_securepdf

Activities

Current version

1.2 (2025032600)

Moodle 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5

Uploaded on Wednesday, 26 March 2025 at 10:50 (GMT+0)

Plugin type: Activities

Frankenstyle component name: mod_securepdf

Version build number: 2025032600

Version release name: 1.2

Maturity: Stable

Supported Moodle versions: 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5

Repository URL (Git): https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf

Repository branch:

Repository tag:

Issue/bug tracker URL: https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf/issues

Secure PDF

Secure PDF module allow you to upload a PDF to your course, and prevent students from downloading it.

Students will get an image of each page and not the PDF itself.

The images are protected from "right click" to prevent saving the image.

Module completion will be set only while user saw all pages of document.

You must know that people with web development skills will be able to download the images (one by one)

Install

Please note that you have to install a PHP module that is not needed by Moodle itself.

Install php-imagick module on your system.

(debian/ubuntu) apt-get install php-imagick

(Redhat/Centos) yum install php-imagick

Configure imagemagick to allow PDF reading, Add <policy domain="coder" rights="read" pattern="PDF"> to the policy at /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml see more details here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52703123/override-default-imagemagick-policy-xml

Restart php-fpm or your web server.

cd [moodle]/mod/

git clone https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf.git securepdf

Go to your moodle Notification Page and install.

Use

Add securepdf module in your course.

Add a PDF fle to the module and watch it.

Note that first view of page will be slow (20-25 seconds), then it's will cached for other users.

Enjoy!

License

See the LICENSE file for licensing details.

About

Secure PDF module was written by Yedidia Klein from OpenApp Israel.

TODO

Support upload of MS-PowerPoint files. (Please contact me about that..)

1.1 (2025032500)

Moodle 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5

Uploaded on Tuesday, 25 March 2025 at 18:35 (GMT+0)

Plugin type: Activities

Frankenstyle component name: mod_securepdf

Version build number: 2025032500

Version release name: 1.1

Maturity: Stable

Supported Moodle versions: 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5

Repository URL (Git): https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf

Repository branch:

Repository tag:

Issue/bug tracker URL: https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf/issues

Secure PDF

Secure PDF module allow you to upload a PDF to your course, and prevent students from downloading it.

Students will get an image of each page and not the PDF itself.

The images are protected from "right click" to prevent saving the image.

Module completion will be set only while user saw all pages of document.

You must know that people with web development skills will be able to download the images (one by one)

Install

Please note that you have to install a PHP module that is not needed by Moodle itself.

Install php-imagick module on your system.

(debian/ubuntu) apt-get install php-imagick

(Redhat/Centos) yum install php-imagick

Configure imagemagick to allow PDF reading, Add <policy domain="coder" rights="read" pattern="PDF"> to the policy at /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml see more details here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52703123/override-default-imagemagick-policy-xml

Restart php-fpm or your web server.

cd [moodle]/mod/

git clone https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf.git securepdf

Go to your moodle Notification Page and install.

Use

Add securepdf module in your course.

Add a PDF fle to the module and watch it.

Note that first view of page will be slow (20-25 seconds), then it's will cached for other users.

Enjoy!

License

See the LICENSE file for licensing details.

About

Secure PDF module was written by Yedidia Klein from OpenApp Israel.

TODO

Support upload of MS-PowerPoint files. (Please contact me about that..)

1.0 (2023041001)

Moodle 3.1, 3.10, 3.11, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.0, 4.1

Uploaded on Monday, 10 April 2023 at 17:53 (GMT+0)

Plugin type: Activities

Frankenstyle component name: mod_securepdf

Version build number: 2023041001

Version release name: 1.0

Maturity: Stable

Supported Moodle versions: 3.1, 3.10, 3.11, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.0, 4.1

Repository URL (Git): https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf

Repository branch:

Repository tag:

Issue/bug tracker URL: https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf/issues

Secure PDF

Secure PDF module allow you to upload a PDF to your course, and prevent students from downloading it.

Students will get an image of each page and not the PDF itself.

The images are protected from "right click" to prevent saving the image.

Module completion will be set only while user saw all pages of document.

You must know that people with web development skills will be able to download the images (one by one)

This release (1.0) have an option in settings to add username and site name on each page.

Install

Please note that you have to install a PHP module that is not needed by Moodle itself.

Install php-imagick module on your system.

(debian/ubuntu) apt-get install php-imagick

(Redhat/Centos) yum install php-imagick

Configure imagemagick to allow PDF reading, Add <policy domain="coder" rights="read" pattern="PDF"> to the policy at /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml see more details here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52703123/override-default-imagemagick-policy-xml

Restart php-fpm or your web server.

cd [moodle]/mod/

git clone https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf.git securepdf

Go to your moodle Notification Page and install.

Use

Add securepdf module in your course.

Add a PDF fle to the module and watch it.

Note that first view of page will be slow (20-25 seconds), then it's will cached for other users.

Enjoy!

License

See the LICENSE file for licensing details.

About

Secure PDF module was written by Yedidia Klein from OpenApp Israel.

TODO

Support upload of MS-PowerPoint files. (Please contact me about that..)

0.99 (2021071401)

Moodle 3.1, 3.10, 3.11, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.0, 4.1

Uploaded on Friday, 16 July 2021 at 09:14 (GMT+0)

Plugin type: Activities

Frankenstyle component name: mod_securepdf

Version build number: 2021071401

Version release name: 0.99

Maturity: Stable

Supported Moodle versions: 3.1, 3.10, 3.11, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.0, 4.1

Repository URL (Git): https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf

Repository branch:

Repository tag:

Issue/bug tracker URL: https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf/issues

Secure PDF

This version (0.99) improve the creation of cache on creating and updating the module (and even after cache purge), So performance will be much better.

Secure PDF module allow you to upload a PDF to your course, and prevent students from downloading it.

Students will get an image of each page and not the PDF itself.

The images are protected from "right click" to prevent saving the image.

Module completion will be set only while user saw all pages of document.

You must know that people with web development skills will be able to download the images (one by one)

Install

Please note that you have to install a PHP module that is not needed by Moodle itself.

Install php-imagick module on your system.

(debian/ubuntu) apt-get install php-imagick

(Redhat/Centos) yum install php-imagick

Configure imagemagick to allow PDF reading, Add <policy domain="coder" rights="read" pattern="PDF"> to the policy at /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml see more details here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52703123/override-default-imagemagick-policy-xml

Restart php-fpm or your web server.

cd [moodle]/mod/

git clone https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf.git securepdf

Go to your moodle Notification Page and install.

Use

Add securepdf module in your course.

Add a PDF fle to the module and watch it.

Note that first view of page will be slow (20-25 seconds), then it's will cached for other users.

Enjoy!

License

See the LICENSE file for licensing details.

About

Secure PDF module was written by Yedidia Klein from OpenApp Israel.

TODO

Support upload of MS-PowerPoint files. (Please contact me about that..)

0.9 (2020101201)

Moodle 3.10, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9

Uploaded on Monday, 21 December 2020 at 15:39 (GMT+0)

Plugin type: Activities

Frankenstyle component name: mod_securepdf

Version build number: 2020101201

Version release name: 0.9

Maturity: Stable

Supported Moodle versions: 3.10, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9

Repository URL (Git): https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf

Repository branch:

Repository tag:

Issue/bug tracker URL: https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf/issues

Secure PDF

Secure PDF module allow you to upload a PDF to your course, and prevent students from downloading it.

Students will get an image of each page and not the PDF itself.

The images are protected from "right click" to prevent saving the image.

Module completion will be set only while user saw all pages of document.

You must know that people with web development skills will be able to download the images (one by one)

Install

Please note that you have to install a PHP module that is not needed by Moodle itself.

Install php-imagick module on your system.

(debian/ubuntu) apt-get install php-imagick

(Redhat/Centos) yum install php-imagick

Configure imagemagick to allow PDF reading, Add <policy domain="coder" rights="read" pattern="PDF"> to the policy at /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml see more details here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52703123/override-default-imagemagick-policy-xml

Restart php-fpm or your web server.

cd [moodle]/mod/

git clone https://github.com/yedidiaklein/moodle-mod_securepdf.git securepdf

Go to your moodle Notification Page and install.

Use

Add securepdf module in your course.

Add a PDF fle to the module and watch it.

Note that first view of page will be slow (20-20 seconds), then it's will cached for other users.

Enjoy!

License

See the LICENSE file for licensing details.

About

Secure PDF module was written by Yedidia Klein from OpenApp Israel.

TODO

Support upload of MS-PowerPoint files. (Please contact me about that..)

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Secure PDF

Versions

1.2 (2025032600)

1.1 (2025032500)

1.0 (2023041001)

0.99 (2021071401)

0.9 (2020101201)