Re: Keeping track of when a user prints a PDF?

["Bradley V. Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, this has to be something that we can do with our CGI programs.  That's
why I'm guessing it's not possible.

The web pages, CGIs, PDFs, etc all reside on the System i.

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Wayne McAlpine
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:40 PM
> To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Keeping track of when a user prints a PDF?
>
>
> Brad, do a Google search for "printer page counter" and you'll find a
> number of products that may do what you want.  Here's a link to
> one of them:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/35dzua
>
>
> Bradley V. Stone wrote:
> > I have an odd situation here.
> >
> > Working on a project for a place that allows users to log in
> and view PDF
> > files (basically documents, maps, etc).
> >
> > The application lets the user view the PDF, but the customer also is
> > possibly looking for a way to know when the user prints the PDF.
> >
> > I know, probably impossible, but, just checking just in case there is
> > something I overlooked.
> >
> > So basically it works like this:
> >
> > 1.  Users displays a list of documents
> > 2.  user clicks on a link to view the PDF file for that document
> > 3.  When they click Print in the PDF viewer, somehow we know so we can
> > charge for it.
> >
> > There are 100 ways around this, such as saving local copies, etc...  but
> > looking for something that for most of the world (ie, non-tech
> savvy) may
> > work.
> >
> > Trust me, I've already ran the "pay per view" where they would
> pay for each
> > document they view and right now that's not what they're looking for.
> >
> > Bradley V. Stone
> > BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
> > eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com
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