I think the closest you can come to making it secure is to make use Adobe's Electronic book system. It's a PDF that can be read only in a special application and does not allow for copying at all. The only glitch in the system is
"User makes screenshot, runs screenshot through OCR and has the text back. It can't be done. You can keep honest people honest, but that is it." But I've read an online book with it. I think it will accomplish most of what you are looking to do - casual copying. - Matt Small -----Original Message----- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: pdf Steven Dworman wrote: > Here's the deal. A client has an extremely important pdf that they want > locked down. What this means is that they want to burn it on a cd, make the > cd copy protected, and not allow the user to save the file after it's been > opened. On top of that they want to prevent the user from doing a "select > all" "copy" "paste". Don't think that making a CD copy protected will work. Generally this protects the complete CD from being copied, not the individual files. It works through one of the executables that is on the CD. Since a .pdf is not an executable and is opened using the executable (Acrobat Reader) from the user I don't think that making the CD copy protected and the file readable will work. > Can this be done? Any solution is a consideration. User makes screenshot, runs screenshot through OCR and has the text back. It can't be done. You can keep honest people honest, but that is it. Jochem ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
