PLEASE READ. RESTRICTIONS ON DOWNLOADED COPIES OF AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY DOCUMENTS.
Copies of American Welding Society (AWS) publications licensed and purchased from this site may be downloaded to a maximum of two (2) computers in Adobe PDF format for use with the Adobe Acrobat reader and the FileOpen copyright protection software.
Purchasers are allowed, under the fair use provisions of the copyright laws, to print one (1) copy of a downloaded AWS publication from their computer for internal use only. The license does not permit further reproduction of the PDF file in any other manual or electronic format. Further, the PDF file may not be accessed from remote computers via a network. The AWS Store system will allow up to three attempts at downloading a PDF to accommodate software failures, connection problems, etc.
The PDF files are not viewable on any mobile devices, tablets or readers.
If you are unsuccessful at downloading a purchased AWS publication, or have a system failure while printing your authorized copy, please contact the AWS Store at (305) 443-9353 or via email at customerservice@aws.org.
Security Features for Electronic Downloads
In an effort to protect their intellectual property and enforce existing copyright laws, many Standards Developing Organizations have required all distributors of their content to implement security features that prevent the reproduction and redistribution of downloaded documents. AWS implemented a security policy that used a free Adobe Acrobat plug-in from FileOpen Systems, Inc.
Security Features:
- Reproduction and redistribution restrictions: The free Adobe Acrobat plug-in "locks" the PDF files to the computer on which it was first opened. Once a PDF file has been locked to a computer, it can be opened only from that computer.
- Networking Restrictions: Secure PDF files cannot be used in a multi-server, network environment.
- Viewing restrictions: You must download the free plug-in to view any secured PDF document. There is no limit to the number of times a document may be viewed on your computer.
- Printing restrictions: The plug-in limits the number of times the document may be printed to one copy. Since the software interprets printing a part of the document as the one allowable print attempt, we recommend you print the entire document.
- Copy & Paste Restrictions: The ability to copy and paste text from the PDF file has been disabled.
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