LockLizard PDF Android Viewer
LockLizard PDF Android Viewer
Version 2.0
Revision 1.13
Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 5
Pre-requisites ................................................................................................................................ 5
Getting Started.............................................................................................................................. 5
Installation .................................................................................................................................... 7
1.4.1 Manual APK file installation (no Play store access) .............................................................. 7
Registration (license activation).................................................................................................... 8
Opening protected documents ................................................................................................... 10
1.6.1 Navigating around a document .......................................................................................... 12
1.6.2 Closing a document............................................................................................................. 12
Safeguard Viewer Toolbar........................................................................................................... 13
1.7.1.1 Toggling toolbar and thumbnails scroller ....................................................................... 13
1.7.2 Toolbar Menu Options ........................................................................................................ 13
1.7.3 Navigation Drawer Options................................................................................................. 14
1.7.3.1 Table of Contents ............................................................................................................ 14
1.7.3.2 Bookmarks ...................................................................................................................... 15
1.7.3.3 Dark Mode ...................................................................................................................... 15
1.7.3.4 Dual Page ........................................................................................................................ 15
1.7.3.5 Document Info ................................................................................................................ 16
1.7.3.6 Share Annotations........................................................................................................... 16
1.7.3.7 Export Annotations ......................................................................................................... 16
1.7.3.8 Import Annotations......................................................................................................... 16
1.7.4 Text Search .......................................................................................................................... 17
1.7.5 Annotations ......................................................................................................................... 18
1.7.5.1 Undo Annotations ........................................................................................................... 18
1.7.5.2 Color Picker ..................................................................................................................... 18
1.7.5.3 Close Annotations ........................................................................................................... 18
1.7.5.4 Switching between annotation types ............................................................................. 19
1.7.5.5 Working with annotations .............................................................................................. 19
Safeguard Viewer Library ............................................................................................................ 21
1.8.1 Toolbar Options .................................................................................................................. 22
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1.8.1.1 Search.............................................................................................................................. 22
1.8.1.2 Edit .................................................................................................................................. 23
1.8.1.3 Import ............................................................................................................................. 23
1.8.2 Navigation Drawer Options................................................................................................. 24
1.8.2.1 New Folder ...................................................................................................................... 25
1.8.2.2 Sort by Date .................................................................................................................... 25
1.8.2.3 Import File ....................................................................................................................... 25
1.8.2.4 Wifi Upload ..................................................................................................................... 25
1.8.2.5 Settings............................................................................................................................ 25
1.8.2.6 Remove Keystore ............................................................................................................ 25
1.8.3 Folders................................................................................................................................. 26
1.8.3.1 Adding folders ................................................................................................................. 26
1.8.3.2 Moving files into folders ................................................................................................. 26
1.8.3.3 Renaming files and folders.............................................................................................. 27
1.8.3.4 Deleting files and folders ................................................................................................ 27
Safeguard Viewer Settings menu ................................................................................................ 29
1.9.1.1 Mark used license ........................................................................................................... 30
1.9.1.2 Remember last page ....................................................................................................... 30
1.9.1.3 Keep screen on ................................................................................................................ 30
1.9.1.4 Always show toolbar ....................................................................................................... 30
1.9.1.5 Remove Keystore ............................................................................................................ 30
1.9.1.6 License Agreement.......................................................................................................... 31
1.9.1.7 Welcome Screen ............................................................................................................. 31
1.9.1.8 Online product manual ................................................................................................... 31
1.9.1.9 About............................................................................................................................... 31
Ways of adding documents/licenses to Safeguard Viewer ........................................................ 32
1.10.1 Email.................................................................................................................................... 32
1.10.2 Web Site Link....................................................................................................................... 32
1.10.3 Import Files ......................................................................................................................... 32
1.10.4 Wi-Fi upload ........................................................................................................................ 33
1.10.5 Cloud file storage (i.e. Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, etc.) ............................................... 35
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1.10.5.1 Dropbox instructions................................................................................................... 35
1.10.5.2 OneDrive instructions ................................................................................................. 37
Document controls ..................................................................................................................... 38
Un-installing the Safeguard Viewer ............................................................................................ 38
Upgrading the Viewer ................................................................................................................. 39
Troubleshooting .......................................................................................................................... 39
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Introduction
Safeguard Secure PDF Viewer enables you to view protected PDF files that have been
published in .PDC format.
Safeguard Viewer is a standalone application that controls what you can do with protected PDF
files (for example how long you can view them for, etc.). These document controls are set by
the publisher of the document and cannot be altered by yourself.
Pre-requisites
Getting Started
The document owner (publisher) will have sent you an email with details of how to install the
Viewer and register (activate) your license.
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Diagram 1: Viewer Registration Email
If you do not receive this email, or your license file has not been sent to you by other means then
contact the publisher. You cannot view Locklizard Secure PDF Files without first activating your
license.
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Installation
1. Make sure you have the latest updates installed for your Operating System.
2. Install the Safeguard Viewer app by downloading it from the Google Play Store.
4. After the install screen appears, press the NEXT and then the INSTALL button.
5. The application may ask you to allow it permissions to access your files (or more) – make
sure you award all permissions it requires.
6. Once installed, a new app icon, Safeguard Viewer, will be displayed on the Home screen.
If you do not have access to Google Apps or the Play Store, you can download the
PDCViewer.apk (the Setup file) directly, from the Locklizard web site.
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Registration (license activation)
These instructions assume you have been emailed a link to a license (.llv file) or have been sent
it by email.
For other methods of getting files onto your device see Ways of adding documents/licenses to
Safeguard Viewer.
1. Tap on the link to the license file (.llv file) in your email application.
2. Complete the action using your browser to download the license file.
3. Use the Import File option in the Safeguard Viewer to navigate to your Downloads folder
and select the .llv file.
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6. A message is displayed confirming successful registration.
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Opening protected documents
These instructions assume you have been emailed a link to a PDC file or have been sent it by
email. For other methods of getting files onto your device see Ways of adding
documents/licenses to Safeguard Viewer.
1. Tap on the link to the PDC file attachment and press the SAVE button (or save it directly, if
it was attached to the email).
2. Tap on the document in the location you downloaded it to. This will load it into the
Safeguard Viewer Downloads folder.
3. Tap on the .pdc document to open it. The protected document (PDC file) will open in the
Viewer as shown below.
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Diagram 9: Opened document
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NOTE: License Activation
If you try and open a document before you have registered (activated your license) the following
message will be displayed:
Diagram 10: Error message if you have not activated your license
When the toolbar is displayed a page scroller is also shown at the bottom of the document
enabling you to quickly navigate to a page.
To close a document, press the back button at the bottom of the screen.
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Safeguard Viewer Toolbar
• The toolbar can be set to be permanently displayed when a document is loaded (so it
does not hide when the document is tapped) by selecting the ‘Always Show Toolbar’
option from the Safeguard Viewer Settings menu.
You can long tap anywhere on a document page for a popup menu with options for
search, bookmarks, document info and table of contents. This is useful when the option
to always show the toolbar is set to on in order to manually override the showing/hiding
of the toolbar.
Navigation Drawer
Annotate text
Bookmarks
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1.7.3 Navigation Drawer Options
To close the navigation drawer slide the menu back from right to left or tap anywhere
outside it.
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1.7.3.2 Bookmarks
• To add a bookmark, edit the name (optional) and press the button
Toggle dark mode on and off. If Dark mode is enabled then select Light mode to turn it
off.
NOTE: dark mode inverts the colours of the document being displayed (white will become
black, green will become purple etc.). This might make some documents harder to read,
so we advise using the option on a case-by-case basis.
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1.7.3.5 Document Info
View information about the document & contact the document’s owner (publisher).
Send annotations you have created for the document via the Android Share interface.
Import previously created annotations for the document from a .pdaan file.
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1.7.4 Text Search
Enter the text you want to search for and then use the navigation buttons to
move forward and back through the document.
As you move through the document the search term you entered is highlighted in yellow.
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1.7.5 Annotations
You can create annotations in your documents to help highlight important information. To
Use this to set a custom colour for the annotation you want to add.
NOTE: select the colour before creating the annotation, as you cannot change an
annotation after it has been added.
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1.7.5.4 Switching between annotation types
Switch between annotation types via the bottom right menu. Tap the blue circle and
choose the type you want to create from the pop-up menu.
Highlight – this overlays a coloured rectangle over the selected text (identical to
highlighting with a marker on paper). It is the default annotation type.
This section provides a quick overview of how you might use annotations.
Example of use: You are preparing for an exam and want to mark certain sections in the
document.
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Highlight other parts of the text with a different colour
Tap the annotations button in the top right, then tap the colour picker button; after
choosing a custom colour, select the blocks of text to be highlighted.
Your colleague can then open the document, swipe right from the left edge of the
screen to open the Navigation Drawer and choose “Import Annotations. After browsing
to the file’s location, they just tap on it for the annotations to load. They can then add
their own annotations via the methods described above, and share the updated version
with you.
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Safeguard Viewer Library
The The Safeguard Viewer library is displayed every time you launch the Safeguard Viewer app.
Any .pdc or .llv files you upload to your device are stored in the Safeguard Viewer library.
If you long tap on a filename or folder then a menu will appear enabling you to delete, rename,
or move the document.
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Diagram 21: Long tap file/folder menu options
After opening a document, its first page will be displayed inside the document’s icon (in the
library interface).
1.8.1.1 Search
Tap on the ‘search string’ text to enter your search text. Your search entry is
automatically filtered as you type.
Press the back button at the bottom of the screen to exit the search interface.
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1.8.1.2 Edit
Here you can select multiple files to delete or move to another folder.
Check the boxes to the left of the document/licenses icons to select individual files or use
the ‘select all files’ button from the toolbar.
1.8.1.3 Import
Import document or license – browse to the location where you downloaded or copied
license files and documents to, and import them one by one.
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1.8.2 Navigation Drawer Options
To close the navigation drawer slide the menu back from right to left or tap anywhere
outside it.
The navigation drawer is not available while the search interface is on screen.
To open the navigation drawer exit search first.
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1.8.2.1 New Folder
Creates a folder.
See Folders for information on adding, deleting, renaming and moving folders.
Organizes files by the date and time they were added to the Safeguard Library, from
newest to oldest.
Import documents and license files – browse to the location where you downloaded or
copied license files and documents to, select multiple files, and import them.
Upload files (licenses & documents) from your computer directly to the Safeguard Library.
1.8.2.5 Settings
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1.8.3 Folders
PDC documents and licenses are stored in the Safeguard library in folders.
If you import/transfer documents and license files from third-party apps (Gmail or other
email applications, Dropbox etc.) these will be stored in a specific folder created by the
system called ‘Downloads’. If you delete the Downloads folder it will be created again
when documents and/or licenses are imported from third-party apps.
You create new folders and move documents and licenses that you have imported into
them.
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Diagram 26: Moving files into folders
5. To quickly move a single file/folder, long tap on it. When the menu appears, select
the move option.
2. Tap the files or folders to delete. You can select all files (or deselect them)
by tapping the button in the top right of the screen.
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Diagram 27: Selecting all files
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Safeguard Viewer Settings menu
From the Settings menu you can change Safeguard Viewer program settings.
To change settings, select the navigation drawer menu in the top left of the Safeguard
Viewer library.
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The following options are ON by default:
You might want to select this option if you find it difficult to get the toolbar to display
when tapping on a document.
You might want to use this feature if the document publisher tells you they have
extended your account or document expiry date but this information is not being picked
up by the Viewer.
• If you use this option you will have to register again to access documents. Any
licenses you have uploaded into the Viewer library will be marked as unused -
you have to tap on each license in order to register it again.
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• Any last pages remembered (Settings menu > Remember Last Page) will be lost,
so documents will now open again at page 1.
1.9.1.9 About
Displays the app name, its version number, your Android version and device name.
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Ways of adding documents/licenses to Safeguard Viewer
These instructions for items 3-5 assume you already have protected PDF files (.pdc files) and
licenses (.llv files) on your computer or LAN.
1.10.1 Email
License files (.llv files) and PDC files which have been sent as attachments by email must be
first saved to your device.
You then must use the Import Files option to load them into the Safeguard Viewer library
Downloads folder.
Once downloaded, tap on the file to load it into the Safeguard Viewer library Downloads
folder.
1. With your device connected to your computer via USB, copy the files across.
2. Once the files are on the device select the ‘Import File’ option from the Safeguard
navigation drawer (left menu).
4. Navigate to the folder you want to import the files from and then press the ALLOW
ACCESS TO ‘FOLDER NAME’ button at the bottom of the screen and confirm.
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Diagram 31: File import
You can upload PDC files and licenses to your device via your local Wi-Fi network, if your
computer and Android device are both connected to the same network.
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A message is displayed asking you to connect with your computer browser to a local
address (e.g. http://192.168.0.53:8080). On your computer, open your browser and
navigate to that address.
You will see a web page with an upload option - select the license(s) and document(s) from
your computer and click “Upload to device”.
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Tap the “Finish Wi-Fi Upload” button in Safeguard Viewer when you are done to finish the
upload process.
Your computer must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your Android device.
Install a cloud file storage system on your computer and your Android device and follow the
instructions to synchronize files between devices.
To do this you need to download the Dropbox application onto your Android device, and
that means setting up an account with Dropbox. Dropbox may be found in the Google
Play Store or at https://www.dropbox.com/.
Once you have installed Dropbox on your device, you must then download the Dropbox
application onto either the PC or Mac, and log on to the account that you created. That
links the accounts together. As soon as you have done that, the Dropbox app will open a
virtual folder where you can drop files to be synchronised between the PC and your
Android device. So, from the PC end you can drop files into the Dropbox folder and they
will become available to the Android device dynamically and vice-versa.
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Diagram 34: Safeguard files in Dropbox
License Files (.llv): Tap the .llv file in Dropbox. This will display the following dialog:
The Safeguard Viewer will pop up and inform you that the license was successfully
imported into the Downloads folder. The license will then be added to the Safeguard
Viewer library Downloads folder.
Secure PDF Files (.pdc): Same as with licenses, just tap the .pdc file in Dropbox. The
document will then be added to the Safeguard Viewer library Downloads folder.
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NOTE: Application Selection
Sometimes, Android will ask what application you would like to use to open document or license
files – in this case, select the Safeguard Viewer app in the list and then the ‘Always’ button.
Then select the More menu options and swipe across to select ‘Copy to Safeguard
Viewer’.
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Document controls
Document controls are set by the publisher (document owner) and cannot be changed.
To view controls applied open a document in the Safeguard viewer, then either:
• select the navigation drawer menu and tap on the Document Info option
Uninstalling the Safeguard Viewer removes the application, the Document and License library,
the Viewer keystore and cache data.
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Upgrading the Viewer
You can manually update the Safeguard Viewer if Google Play Store is not set to automatically
update all of your applications.
To manually update the Safeguard Viewer application, launch the Google Play Store, and
search for “Safeguard Viewer”.
In the application screen tap the Update button. The newer version will be installed and all
documents, folders and license registrations will be kept.
Troubleshooting
Search for the keyword in an error message rather than a string of text. For any items not
covered here you must consult the publisher of the document.
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