-none- 2007-08-21 - By Leonard Rosenthol
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On Aug 21, 2007, at 7:59 AM, Pierre-Yves Peton wrote:
> I am a new user of IText and I'm investigating itext as a tool to
> build
> "intelligent" PDF on-the-fly
> on a web site. Abobe DRM is expensive and heavyweight so I'd rather
> design
> a simple mecanism
> embedded in a PDF. It would include :
>
I am not sure why you think that Adobe DRM is heavyweight, since it
doesn't require anything on the client side...but that's certainly
your decision.
> * a document serial number (generated by web site)
> * a user serial number (based on user web site profile)
> * a pinging mecanism which is run on PDF opening. It would send to our
> website the couple (Serial Number, User ID)
>
Does this need to work with Reader as well as Acrobat? What version
(s) of same?
> I know it's possible to carry this out by using embedded Abode
> Javascript
> but, as a solution, I've got trouble running a webservice
> invokation on open with IText and Javascript.
>
Web Service (aka SOAP) support in PDF JavaScript is only available
in Acrobat and not in Reader. To support Reader, you will need to us
a simple "post" to a standard http/https listener.
Leonard
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