Locked Documents

[davidwlasitz 2]

I just downloaded one of the examples from the Welcome Menu (city.afdesign) and I noticed that the document was locked (note: I am not talking about Layers). Since the document is Locked, I cannot Export it at all (example: .pdf, .png, etc...). How do I Lock and Unlock my creations so others cannot export them to different formats? 

[MikeW 2,327]

All the samples are locked by Serif and cannot be unlocked, exported, etc..

 

You/we cannot do this.

 

Mike

[Alfred 5,459]

I'd have thought they could expose the locking mechanism to the UI without also exposing the unlocking mechanism, but I guess there must be a good reason why they haven't done this.

[R C-R 4,254]

I'd have thought they could expose the locking mechanism to the UI without also exposing the unlocking mechanism, but I guess there must be a good reason why they haven't done this.

Maybe because once we locked a file we could not unlock it?

[Alfred 5,459]

Maybe because once we locked a file we could not unlock it?

 

Well, yes, but all that would be needed is a warning to that effect, perhaps accompanied by 'Save' forcing a 'Save As...' so that you can't accidentally overwrite the unlocked original.

[MikeW 2,327]

Well, if they exposed a locking mechanism they should do it with a key as well for unlocking. A p/w system akin to locking a zip file. One can open a zip to see its contents but cannot extract them.