Re: Keeping track of when a user prints a PDF? -- WEB400

Sealed Media runs on a different server. I think we are running it on Solaris here but it may be on Windows (I did not do the implementation).

Matt

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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bradley V. Stone
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Keeping track of when a user prints a PDF?

Is this a System i piece of software? Or does it require a different
server?

Bradley V. Stone
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Behalf Of Haas, Matt (CL Tech Sv)
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Keeping track of when a user prints a PDF?

Using Sealed Media does exactly that. The server component has a
function that applies your settings to a PDF and then when you
want to deliver a PDF, the server sends it out. The user is
required to have a plug-in and that plug-in checks the server to
see if the person opening it is allowed to open it (this lets you
do things like revoke access if you need to). It also has an
offline mode so the PDF isn't useless when you don't have a
network connection. When a PDF is (in our case) purchased, we
send some data to the server telling it that a person has been
granted access to a particular file. Once the access has been
granted, the user downloads from a URL returned by the server.

Overdrive works pretty much the same way but I think it's only
available as a hosted option.

Matt

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[mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:38 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Keeping track of when a user prints a PDF?

Bradley V. Stone wrote:

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.

As the PDF is handled by an external application, I'm guessing that what
you are look for is pretty much impossible.

Although I have little experience with PDF's, I'm wondering if there is
a way you can embed some logic inside the PDF that will ping a web
service when the document is printed?

'course this depends on the PDF viewer processing the logic ... I
suspect some non-adobe apps might not.

david

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