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I wanted to do something like this a few years ago, but eventually gave up.

While it may be possible to write a plug in to do this without violating the
licensing agreement, that plug in would need to be installed on each
machine. And plugins are generally not portable across Acrobat versions.

Your probably better off setting the properties that you want in
File:Document Security to prevent inproper access.

A couple of thoughts.

1. Why not add an invisible form field with  a "NOT FOR REPRODUCTION" text
or icon message. Set the field properties to "invisible, but prints. This
will prevent anyone from printing it. .
2. Add some javascript that checks that the form is being viewed inside a
browser, and you can turn undo the print message. This allows them to print
from inside the browser on your intranet.

"Robin" <msrado@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> I've searched the web and can't find an answer to my particular
> question, so please bear with me ...
>
> 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?
>
> I also want my purchasing agents to be able to perform batch password
> changes on copies of these files as they are sent to vendors.  I would
> like to create a VB program that allows the agents to specify the new
> password and the directory that the files are located in.  The program
> would send the old password to the files, then change the password and
> resave them.  Can I do this with an add-on to Reader?  If not, can I
> do this with an add-on to Acrobat?
>
> BIG thanks in advance!
> Robin