Protection Tab

The access to some pages in an Ebook can be restricted, making reading such pages possible only after entering a password (registration key).

The protection system used by HyperMaker has many options to suit your needs, so please take enough time to understand how it works.

Password protect pages: Any page in a publication can be protected, enabling viewing for registered users only (after entering a password). Be aware that you should password protect all pages you want to protect, not just the index page, to avoid users accessing pages by searching words.
Limited access (Stop access after running): When the number of times or days that a publication can be accessed has lapsed, a warning message will be shown instead of opening the page. Unless a registration key is entered the page will not be accessible.
Expiration: If Expiration check box is selected, when the selected date has lapsed, the Ebook will open the update.htm file, providing such a page was made part of your publication. After an Ebook has expired it cannot be accessed anymore. It is not possible to enter any key to use the open it again. If you want to offer your user a way to use the publication some time, before registering it, use the Limited access option instead using Expiration. EXPIRATION IS NOT AVAILABLE IN THE TRIAL VERSION OF HYPERMAKER.

Warning and Registration pages

When a user tries to access a password protected page or the number of times that a publication can be accessed has lapsed, a warning message will be shown instead of opening the page.
The HTML file that contains that message is called the warning page.

The registration page is the page that allows entering a password to allow access to all pages in the Ebook.
If you specify your own registration page it will be used instead the standard one. The registration page is opened when the reader clicks on the Registration button or the Registration menu (when browsing the publication).

Protecting pages

To protect pages click on the Files Tab, select the file(s) that you want to protect and then right-click to open the contextual menu and select the Protect/Unprotect Page menu command. If you click again the menu command, after protecting the page, it will be unprotected .

After a page is protected, its name will appear in the Protected Pages list in this tab, this list has an associated contextual menu, so by righ-clicking you can remove pages from the list.

Protection system

The basic options for protecting pages appear on the top of this tab and they are:

If None is selected the eBook will not be protected at all, anyone will be able to browse through all its pages.

While None is selected, most controls in the Protection tab will remain disabled.

You may protect the eBook in different ways, either locking some pages or the whole eBook:

Password protect pages is a protection method which requires a password key to gain access to the locked pages. Locked pages are all pages that appear the Protected Pages list. You can add or remove pages from the list following the instructions under Protecting pages above. Any page that is not in the list will be accessible.
All locked pages are protected using a Main key by default. So entering a Main key will permanently unprotect all pages.

Also Local temporary Keys can be set for specific pages. Once the Main key is typed in all pages will be unprotected forever. The Local key will unlock the page only while the eBook remains open. Each and every time the eBook is opened, the Local key should be entered once more to gain access to that page. To setup a Local Key, select the page in the Protected Pages list, click Lock Key , select Local and enter the Local Key you want to use. Click the same button, but selecting Main to setup again the default Main key.

Stop access after running:
- . You can specify the number of times that the eBook can be opened. After being opened the specified number of times, the eBook will display a warning page, requiring a user to type in a registration key to gain further access.

. You can specify the number of days that the eBook can be opened.
The time start counting the first time the eBook is opened, once the time lapses, the eBook will display a warning page, requiring a user to type in a registration key to gain further access.

If you selected Stop access after running instead Password protect pages option you should not protect any page, since the time limit options will affect all pages in the Ebook.

Choosing None, of course, will keep all pages unprotect and accessible without time limits as well.

To remove some pages from the Protected Pages list, either remove them from Files Tab, using the same contextual menu that protected them before or select them in the Protect Page list and click Unlock

Expiration and Secure Date Checking options

The Expiration options only is available after registering HyperMaker. The difference between setting an expiration date and a number of days as time limit is that after an Ebook expires, it can't be accessed any more, but after the time limit is reached, the Ebook can be accessed by entering the proper password.

When Secure date checking is selected the eBook will check to see if the computer's date has been tinkered with. If the eBook detects that the date was set backwards it will prevent further user access to the eBook pages.

This will discourage those users that may opt to modify the system date to try and fool publications with an expiring date or Registration keys with expiration date are issued for a publication. If Secure date checking is selected, and the user sets back the date the publication locks-up immediately or opens the update.htm page (if you set an expiration date).

Secure date checking only applies when either Stop access after running or Expiration date are selected.

We included the Secure date option because some users wanted such option, but actually we deprecate its use. A user could modify the date unintentionally and lose their access to the eBook or still worse, the eBook will not run ever.

Temporal keys

Please read Registration keys with expiration date

Main Password Options

The Main Password can be based on:

I.D. (Identification number related to the user's hard drive serial number) + User name + Publication title
This is the most secure method. More information.
User name + Publication title
Another method, less secure than the above (because your users can share the keys with their friends), but more user-friendly since the registration key is not linked to a specific computer, so the user doesn't need to ask for a new registration key if he needs to install the Ebook on a different computer.
Predetermined password
This is the most simple approach. All users will use the same password or you can generate a number of predetermined passwords and let the program pick-up any of them at random. More information

Additional information

Password Protect pages None Stop access after running