[thelist] modifying pdfs

Daniel J. Post danieljpost at gmail.com
Thu Jun 17 12:21:36 CDT 2010


Perhaps you could run them through a pdf2swf converter, then create a
flash player for the read-only crowd to use, that has the ability to
display but not print the SWFs?

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:00 PM,  <thelist-request at lists.evolt.org> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:03:00 -0500
> From: Jeremy Weiss <eccentric.one at gmail.com>
> To: Evolt <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: [thelist] modifying pdfs
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> I have a shared network drive that contains engineering drawings saved
> in pdf format. When created, the production dept has the ability to
> view and print these pdf files. But once a new version of a drawing
> comes out, we need to modify the permissions to allow the production
> department to view but not print these pdfs.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to have the print permissions changed on a
> pdf file using php/bash/python/perl/prayer/sacrifices of small
> animals?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy


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