Why should a pdf be locked? Getting away from the idea that work is always
on paper says to me that it should not be read-only *at the user end*. The
emerging means of authentication described by Adrian should be an excellent
way forward, but why the need to lock as well?
I ask because for
At 16:19 07/11/00 +, you wrote:
Can I seek information about a topic which might constitute a new
thread?
It touches on an old one.
I promised readers that I would say when www.probity.org was launched. It
now is live and is concerned with developing widely acceptable means of
providing
At 17:08 08/11/00 +, J Adrian Pickering wrote:
but found
none in the random selection of the 30 articles I looked in.
Acrobat also has mechanisms to lock the article to prevent it from
being modified. These mechanisms too did not seem to be used by
any of my publishers. Which I found
Can I seek information about a topic which might constitute a new
thread?
I have been concerned for a little while about how one goes
about authenticating a document, lets say an eprint.
Authenticating means, inter alia, two things
a) Is the author authentic, and how can one check this
b) Has
