Impressario Xtra 2.0 definetely supports reading/presenting passwords
protected PDF (and, by the way, my latest version of PDF Class, a lingo
script for creating PDF files, supports the creation of password
protected PDF)

Valentin

Roger Jones wrote:
> Does anyone have a solution for dealing with password protected PDF.
> Client wants a CD with ~150 pdfs that could be viewed or printed in
> the
> presence of the CD but not be copied from the CD to the HD. Win 32
> only.
>
> I looked at the command line open params for acrobat reader but didn't
> see any mention of passing a password. I found and old technote from
> 2000 on the pdfxtra site that said the password protection was not
> currently supported. Do newer versions of the xtra or any other xtra
> support pdf passwords?
>
> Alternatively I could encrypt the pdf files themselves on the CD but
> I'd still have to create unencrypted temp files on the HD. Is there a
> way to decrypt the data to memory and display it or a way to directly
> embed the PDF data in the cast? Is there some other solution to
> protecting the pdf that I am overlooking? The goal here is to prevent
> the causal user from distributing the unprotected pdfs, not to prevent
> a determined cracker from getting to it.
>
>
> thanks
> Roger Jones
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