Hi,
I asked a question that got an awesome response (#2507), but my follow-up question didn't get a response.
Duff Johnson answered my question about securing a CD with PDFs of a publication being very costly and not worth it.
He mentioned something about hiding them on the CD which I wanted to get more info on.
I wrote the following:
I'm not trying to protect against people who are very tech savvy. Rather I want to prevent people who know how to open My Computer, copy the PDF over to their HD and send it around to friends.
The idea of hiding it somewhere on the CD (perhaps with a non-PDF extension-if possible) would be a great solution. Is there somewhere I can learn how to do that?
I also asked a follow-up about putting 6,500 pages in one PDF.
In regards to the 6,500 page PDF my concern wasn't the capacity of the CD, but it was having such a large PDF which might freeze or work slowly. Is it a problem to have that many pages (greyscale 1540 X 2448 300dpi) in one PDF?
If I have to split up the PDFs then I had the problem of people searching across the different PDFs. How can they do a search easily across many PDFs without having the knowhow of using windows built in search. Also can I give them the ability to search only in certaint journal #'s and not others?
Thanks again....this site is great!
-Daniel
You can use the catalog function of Acrobat to make a catalog and associate it to the first page. When the user opens the first page, the search in Acrobat is to search the index.
You can make several indexes and have them turn on based on the section by associating them to the first page of the section. That way people are only searching the given section.
If you need help, my email is [url=mailto:tcarson [at] ewkm [dot] net.]tcarson [at] ewkm [dot] net.[/url] I will show you how over connect.
Tom is a Professional Engineer and an ACE on 5 versions of Acrobat. He works extensively in AEC, government and education.