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Article #11Re: Send Password to PDF Via ASP?
From: Robin
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 19:49
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 19:49
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Thanks, Aandi. I found FileOpen while digging through the Adobe user forum the other day. It's a neat package and we're in the process of evaluating it. Have a great day, Robin quite@dial.pipex.con (Aandi Inston) wrote in message news:<40990d85.1793317614@reading.news.pipex.net>... > 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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