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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] PDF Printing Question
  • Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 14:10:22 -0400

You could potentially create a "PDF download" interface that upon clicking
the link:

Creates a temporary copy of the original PDF
Adds a date timestamp "Expires on ..."
Sends the temporary copy in the HTTP response

A simple cron job could clean out your temp folder regularly.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
> Of raustin3 AT nc.rr.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 2:05 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] PDF Printing Question
>
> 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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