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Re: Send Password to PDF Via ASP?

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From: Robin
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
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Subject: Re: Send Password to PDF Via ASP?
Date: 6 May 2004 12:49:59 -0700
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