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[raustin3 AT nc.rr.com]

 Actually, the PDFs will be static. It would be great if 
I could print them from the originals, but that isn't 
the case due to the PDF construction methods that are 
used. These are paper based scanned docs into PDFs 
mostly.
 Interesting problem. Thanks, Roger

----- Original Message -----
From: Sil Greene <Sil_greene AT unc.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2004 1:52 pm
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] PDF Printing Question

> 
> It is possible to generate PDFs on-the-fly .. so you could 
> generate the 
> PDF, it opens in their browser plug-in with the "Expires on ..." 
> in the 
> margin, and they print.  Voila.
> 
> Actually, this is probably what you want, right?  What if the user 
> saved 
> the file to disk and printed, say, a week later?  Would you want 
> the 
> expiration date to be two weeks from when they got the PDF from 
> your site, 
> or two weeks from when they sent the job to the printer?
> 
> --Sil
> 
> 
> 
> Reported 04.04.08 13:43 from raustin3 AT nc.rr.com:
> .:
> .: A user wants to be able to expire PDFs a couple of weeks after 
> they 
> .:are printed from web access. For example, someone clicks to 
> bring up 
> .:a PDF file in a browser plug-in and selects print. The user 
> wants to 
> .:have a date printed on the PDF (watermark perhaps?) which says 
> that 
> .:the document expires in two weeks from the time it was printed.
> .: I've looked through the documentation from Adobe without much 
> luck, 
> .:but I thought someone else may have discovered the trick or can 
> say 
> .:it ain't possible. Any thoughts?
> .:
> .:
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