On Monday 29 June 2009 11:52:11 pm Ronald Wiplinger (Lists) wrote: > I have a pdf booklet - some are created with Scribus, some are > made with Acrobat 9Pro. > These booklets should be sold on a hosted web server (apache with > php). > > We would be thrilled if we could personalize the booklet during > selling, like: > > 1. add a remark on each page, like Teacher <name> uses <title> > booklet > (the buyer is the teacher) > > 2. a personalized additional page (welcome page number 3) > > 3. the booklets should be THEN copy and print protected > > All these should be done during the sales. > > > Is it possible? or What is possible? Please guide me to the right > place. > > bye > > Ronald
I have already answered the side issue of whether it is legitimate to charge for books or booklets on Open Source software. My advice here is free and worth every penny :<) If I wanted to customize an e-book to discourage piracy I would probably create the book in TeX. Then I would put the buyer name in a one-line file via the online process. The delivery mechanism would include a recompilation of the book in TeX, which book would include macros which used the person's name as loaded from the file. I have the whole process laid out conceptually except for one problem; most web hosts don't support TeX. Thus I would need to send the information to my home computer which is on 24/7, trap the particular mail, auto execute the compilation routine and email the results to the customer. Kmail can auto execute a program when email arrives to a certain address, but extracting the contents of the email for further processing I have not yet figured out. Why TeX and not Scribus? TeX is inherently a batch process and Scribus is an interactive process. I might be able to make it work as a command line program with no interaction but I haven't tested it yet. And the need to use my own computer still remains. Hosts don't support Scribus either. I may test out bits and pieces of the process just for curiosity, with Scribus for starters. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
