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Just Launched: DRM Protection of PDF Files in Your Browser - For Free

We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature at PDFEReader.com: you can now create PDFe files directly from your browser — no downloads, no subscriptions, no fuss.

What’s a PDFe file? It’s our proprietary, DRM-protected format that gives you greater control over how your documents are accessed and used. Whether you’re sharing reports, course materials, or private documents, this feature helps you protect your content and set an expiry date so the file automatically becomes inaccessible after a certain period.

🔐 What You Can Now Do WITH PDFe FILES

  • Protect your PDFs with DRM instantly

  • Set expiry dates so files stop working after a chosen date

  • Prevent unauthorized sharing and copying

  • Prevent unauthorized printing of your documents

  • Set geographic access controls to your intellectual property

Why This Matters

Traditional PDFs offer limited control once shared. Anyone with the file can copy it, forward it, or store it forever. But with PDFe files, you stay in control. This is especially useful for:

  • Educators sharing time-limited course content

  • Businesses distributing sensitive documents

  • Freelancers or creators delivering paid work

  • Anyone who wants to secure their intellectual property


Get Started in Seconds

  1. Go to https://pdfereader.com

  2. Select the PDFe Creator tab

  3. Upload your PDF

  4. Set an expiry date

  5. Provide the expiry message

  6. Download your new PDFe file — ready to go!


Try It Out — And Let Us Know What You Think

We built this with privacy, simplicity, and accessibility in mind. No logins, no tracking — just powerful tools to help you take control of your PDFs.

Give it a go, and drop us a message with your feedback. We’re just getting started.

👉 Create your first PDFe file now

Free PDFe Reader Now Available for iPhone and iPad

We are happy to announce the general availability of our free PDFe Reader for iPhone and iPad. You and your users can now open and read the DRM protected PDF files on the go and on your tablets!

p/s You can add expiry dates to your PDF documents using All-About-PDF for Windows. See this link for more information.

Download from the Apple App Store using the link below

Download on the App Store

Or simply scan this QR code.

DRM Protected PDFe Files

What is Digital Rights Management (DRM) Protection

Digital Rights Management is a far-reaching term that refers to any scheme that controls access to copyrighted material using technological means. In essence, DRM removes usage control from the person in possession of digital content and puts it in the hands of the copyright owner.

What are PDFe Files?

All-About-PDF’s PDFe files are encrypted PDF documents that have an expiry date. They allow the document author to specify when the PDF document is no longer valid. In the near future, these documents will include more features such as geolocation lock (where a document can only be viewed in specific regions), domain lock (the document can only be viewed by users of a specific Windows domains) and remote kill-switch ability (the document author can remote render the document invalid).

These features are very useful for authors of valuable intellectual property such as online course materials, engineering designs, architecture drawings etc. This allows the authors to share their copyrighted material while maintaining full access control to their intellectual property.

In order to maintain high security, the PDFe file specification is proprietary to All-About-PDF and can only be opened by our special document readers.

How To Open AND VIEW PDFE Files

iOS and iPadOS PDFe Viewer

iOS and iPadOS PDFe Viewer

Once a PDFe file has been created in All-About-PDF, there are three ways of opening and viewing it.

  1. Using the free PDFe Viewer for Windows: you can be download this from our downloads page

  2. Using the free PDFe Viewer for macOS: you can download this from our downloads page

  3. Using the free iOS and iPad app: this can be downloaded from the Apple Apple Store

  4. Using our free online PDFe viewer: you may access the online PDFe Viewer using Chrome web browser at this address.


All of the above methods of viewing PDFe documents do not allow saving or printing of the original PDF document.