Digital rights management software will help do this but is fairly costly. Instead you can do this for free using these tools italic Firstly host the PDF on Google Drive s or Dropbox s you can easily create a free account to store almost all the PDF you ever want to. Second use a free document tracking plug-in like Orangedox | Track your Documents s (Disclaimer I work for Orangedox) which will let you share s to web versions of your PDF without the ability to download the document italic . italic Your users will then be able to only view the document but not print or download it they will however be able to screenshot the document (not much you can do about that). Plus youll get the added benefit of tracking the document so you can determine if the person you shared it with has forwarded it on to someone else.