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2009-06-02 13:26:15
jules
Registered: Jun 2 2009
Posts: 3

I'm looking for a way to add to my PDF eBooks a dynamic watermark or dynamic stamp that says something like, "Licensed to [customer], [customer email address], on [date of purchase]. I want to populate the bracketed fields with information pulled from my 3rd party ecommerce purchasing system.

Does anyone know how to do that, or can refer me to an inexpensive software product that will do that for me? I'm trying to avoid expensive DRM issues but protect my copyright as much as possible.

Thank you!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.0
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2009-06-13 21:08:41
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meowoz
Registered: Feb 13 2009
Posts: 10
Hi Jules,

You might want to try out Coldfusion DDX to applied dynamic watermarking to your PDF documents. More info can be found here http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/ddx_pdf_print.php

Another option would be to use iText, a free java-based api.

I have used CF DDX for my school project and it is working well for me. Now my next challenge is to get retrieve the pdf table of content/ bookmark from my library of pdf documents.

Regards
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2009-06-14 01:55:45
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UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
Another option if your server is LAMP-based is the tool suite from Setasign

http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/

Not free, but also not very expensive, though they only support PDF/1.7 or lower so you can't use them on Portfolios or documents with Acro-9 content (flash, 3D, etc.).
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