You could have an OpenAction on the document that pings a URL - but that 
requires JavaScript.

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From: Andrew Mickish [mailto:mick...@ndr.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 5:30 AM
To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Track PDF views?

> Why would you want to do that? I mean, what's your business case? 
> Perhaps PDF is not the right technology for you and you need some kind 
> of DRM thing.

I am using a DRM thing that is a PITA.  It prevents users from sharing the 
content.

The business case is to encourage users to share the content, track the usage, 
then follow up on business leads in the company where the content is ultimately 
being read.  Our web site (the source of the PDFs) is secured, so users can't 
share URLs and access the whole site.  But if a paying customer downloads one 
PDF at a time to email to a colleague, that is a teaser we want to allow.

I thought there might be a way to embed something like an   tag that
downloads a pixel from my server, so I could just log the IP address where the 
document was viewed.

I would be fine with a solution that only works in Adobe Reader.


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