[SalesForce] Will the PDF rendered VF page can have buttons where user can click

I have designed a solution to generate a document for each record with the values from the record by having button that will generate a PDF form of the record with selected fields and there values.

I have a question that is it possible to add button to the PDF rendered VF page where user can click it.

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Yes, it is possible There is an example below, that shows couple of links (as link, as buttons and as custom URL field as link type)

    <apex:page standardController="Account" renderAs="pdf" 
               standardStylesheets="false" showHeader="false" 
               sidebar="false" applyBodyTag="false"  >
    <body>
        <div class="button">
            <a href="https://google.com">Some custom link</a>
        </div>
        <div>
            <a href="https://google.com" 
               style="font: bold 11px Arial;text-decoration: none; 
                      background-color: #EEEEEE;color: #333333;padding: 2px 6px 2px 6px;
                      border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;border-right: 1px solid #333333;
                      border-bottom: 1px solid #333333; 
                      border-left: 1px solid #CCCCCC;">
                 Some link like a button
            </a>
        </div>
        <apex:detail subject="{!Account.Id}" relatedList="false" inlineEdit="false" showChatter="false"  />
    </body>
</apex:page>

If render as pdf, can result as pdf shown below:

All the links are clickable (at least in google chrome preview) and lead to appropriate page.

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[SalesForce] VF page fields after click the save button read only(view)

In that case use the below code

public class MyOrderPadController {
    public Order__c order{ get; private set;} 
    public string statusM{get;set;}

    public MyOrderPadController (){}

public MyOrderPadController(ApexPages.StandardController sc) {

    order = (Order__c)sc.getRecord();
    order.Account__c = ApexPages.currentPage().getParameters().get('aid'); 
    statusM = false; 
}
public PageReference edit() 
     { 
           return null;        
     }
 public PageReference reset()
 {
      PageReference newpage = new PageReference(System.currentPageReference().getURL());

      newpage.setRedirect(true);
      return newpage;
}
 public PageReference save() 
 {
      TRY
      {              
           order.Name = 'Demo ';                                      
            IF(order.Conformation__c == TRUE){                          
                INSERT order; 
                statusM = true;
                PageReference newpage = new                PageReference(System.currentPageReference().getURL());
                newpage.setRedirect(true);
                return newpage;     
                }


                }   

      catch(System.DMLException e) 
      {
        ApexPages.addMessages(e);
        SYSTEM.DEBUG('ERROR ORDER PAD CONTROLLER :'+e);
        return null;
      }
    //  After Save, navigate to the default view page:
    //return (new ApexPages.StandardController(order)).view();
    return null;        
 }   
}



Page:

<apex:page standardController="Order__c" extensions="MyOrderPadController" >       
     <apex:detail />
        <apex:form >    
        <apex:pageBlock >      
            <apex:pageBlockButtons >
                <apex:commandButton action="{!save}" value="Save"/>
                <apex:commandButton action="{!edit}" value="Edit"/>
                <apex:commandButton action="{!reset}" value="Cancel" />
            </apex:pageBlockButtons>                       
            <apex:pageBlockSection columns="2" title="Order Pad">
            <apex:inputField value="{!Order__c.Order_Description__c}" disabled="{!if(statusM==true,true,false)}"/>
                    <apex:inputField value="{!Order__c.Creat_Date__c}"  disabled="{!if(statusM==true,true,false)}"/>
                    <apex:inputField value="{!Order__c.Closed_Date__c}"  disabled="{!if(statusM==true,true,false)}"/>
                     <apex:inputField value="{!Order__c.Conformation__c}" disabled="{!if(statusM==true,true,false)}" />                                          
            </apex:pageBlockSection>
        </apex:pageBlock>
    </apex:form> 

</apex:page>

[SalesForce] Password protected Visualforce Page rendered as PDF

I'm not aware of any flags that can be set on the render engine to establish any PDF native security settings to password protect it at the time it's rendered. You might want to check the Flying Saucer site, the render engine used by Salesforce, to see if there are any solutions or options for it that are documented there.

Edit 7-25-16:

When PDFs are rendered by most any engine, they're rendered without any security. That includes Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Distiller, Google Chrome's "Save As PDF" plug-in and various Windows PDF print drivers that I'm familiar with like CleverPrint. In all cases, one sets the security settings AFTER the document is printed. The only exceptions to this that I'm aware of are a couple of plug-ins such as the one for LibreOffice Writer and perhaps MS Office Word where one can set the security before saving the PDF to file. In both of those cases, one isn't converting an html document to a print document.

I think your best solution for an email attachment would be to put it in a wrapper that's encrypted whether that be a binary zip file format or something similar, that is, unless you're familiar with the internal workings of a PDF document which is something I wouldn't want to try to manipulate with Apex.

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