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2011-01-04 08:37:26
barryc
Registered: Jan 4 2011
Posts: 2

I would like to ask advice from you Acrobat experts.
 
I am working on a project to scan and publish on CD a series of journals published by our organization. At present I'm working on 1962 to 1970. Each year has multiple issues and, of course, each issue has multiple articles. We will charge for these CDs and don't want people to be able to copy and distribute them.
Because I don't want a user to have to enter a password for every issue, I am thinking that I'll combine all content into one big PDF file, with different issues being listed in the sidebar as bookmarks. I'd also like to be able to have "submenus", where the primary bookmark is, say, the year, and clicking on that reveals the issues, within that year and clicking on an issue reveals the individual articles.
 
I am also wrestling with what to show when the disk is opened. I am thinking about a splash screen with an image and title and buttons to each year, to search, and to browser whole document, for example.
 
I'd appreciate any suggestions that you might have about organizing this material for presentation. I want users to be able to access it on both Windows PCs and Macs. I personally use a Mac (OS X) but also have a Windows 7 machine here.
 
Barry Cooper

Barry Cooper
Sweet Home, OR

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.0, Macintosh
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2011-01-04 12:09:04
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barryc
Registered: Jan 4 2011
Posts: 2
More information: From my searching, it seems that the difficulty will be with preventing unauthorized copying of the CD. I understand that password protecting the PDF file will prevent content from being copied but it does not protect the file from being copied. I tried password protecting a PDF file and I could indeed copy (duplicate) that file. So that doesn't solve that particular problem. It is unfortunate that the password is copied with the file such that someone could copy the CD, give it to someone, and give them the password to open the PDF.

CD encryption may help but I'm not aware of any utility that will do so to produce a password protected CD that can be read on Windows and Mac (after entering the password, of course).

If I can find a way to encrypt the CD, requiring a password to open it, would obviate the need to combine the PDFs into one large file and to password protect that.

Any comments welcomed.

Barry Cooper

Barry Cooper
Sweet Home, OR

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