{"id":3990,"date":"2011-03-08T23:52:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T22:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3990-adobe-document-center-shutting-down-protected-documents-to-become-unreadable.html"},"modified":"2011-03-08T23:52:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T22:52:50","slug":"adobe-document-center-shutting-down-protected-documents-to-become-unreadable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3990-adobe-document-center-shutting-down-protected-documents-to-become-unreadable.html","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Document Center shutting down, protected documents to become unreadable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The what? Well, few people used it which is why it is shutting down; but the <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.adobe.com\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Document Center<\/a> is a service for protecting documents, somewhat similar to Microsoft\u2019s Rights Management Services except that it is provided as a hosted subscription service; though I am not sure that it ever made it out of beta and actually started charging. You can use it with a PDF or Microsoft Office document to restrict who can access it and set an expiry date.<\/p>\n<p>At least, you could. I have received an email (because I must have tried the beta back in 2006) informing me that the service is shutting down on April 2nd 2011:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Important<\/b>: This means that after the Service shuts down you, or anyone you have distributed documents protected via the Service, will no longer be able to open\/access these documents. We strongly encourage you to use Adobe Acrobat to un-protect these documents before the Service is shut down. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Time to make a mental note: protected documents are high-maintenance and there is always a risk of losing your data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The what? Well, few people used it which is why it is shutting down; but the Adobe Document Center is a service for protecting documents, somewhat similar to Microsoft\u2019s Rights Management Services except that it is provided as a hosted subscription service; though I am not sure that it ever made it out of beta &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3990-adobe-document-center-shutting-down-protected-documents-to-become-unreadable.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adobe Document Center shutting down, protected documents to become unreadable<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[123,810],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-cloud-computing","tag-adobe","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}