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Article #10Re: Send Password to PDF Via ASP?
From: Aandi Inston
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 15:52
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 15:52
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msrado@yahoo.com (Robin) wrote: >I have an intranet site that I would like to populate with PDF files >that are password protected. (User or owner password - we haven't >decided yet.) I would like to have some ASP code in the web pages >open the PDF files by sending them the password, not by having the >user type it in. (This is our way of protecting the files from being >saved or opened outside of the intranet.) I've looked at the Adobe >SDK and see that I can't automate Reader to do this. Is there an >add-on to Adobe Reader that I can use for this? What you describe is not unlike what most DRM systems do, though they typically don't send a password in plain text as that is so easily intercepted. Systems like FileOpen, PageVault, and Adobe's e-book system all have elements of this. ---------------------------------------- Aandi Inston quite@dial.pipex.com http://www.quite.com Please support usenet! Post replies and follow-ups, don't e-mail them.
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