EXP Systems Forum: Password PDF Time Out Suggestion

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   Hey Michel, sometimes I have to provide sample reports and although they are password protected, they could be reproduced. 

Is there a way to make the pdf documents time out, ie, no longer able to be opened after a certain date? It would prevent them being passed along and reproduced after a tender period has lapsed.

Could you add this in the next update?

Steve

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Steveboyy Newbie Joined: 22 Jun 11 Posts: 11	Topic: Password PDF Time Out Suggestion Posted: 30 Aug 12 at 6:27PM
	Hey Michel, sometimes I have to provide sample reports and although they are password protected, they could be reproduced. Is there a way to make the pdf documents time out, ie, no longer able to be opened after a certain date? It would prevent them being passed along and reproduced after a tender period has lapsed. Could you add this in the next update? Steve
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Michel_K17 Moderator Group Forum Administrator Joined: 25 Jan 03 Posts: 1673	Posted: 30 Aug 12 at 8:38PM
	Hi, I would love to, but I am at the mercy of the PDF specification from Adobe, and there is no allowance for such a feature. More specifically, even if I wrote a script contained in the PDF that would try to do what you are doing, all a user would need to do would be to turn off script support, or use a PDF Reader that does not run scripts. Sorry. If this is really important to you, you can consider a web-managed solution with digital rights management (DRM) such as that provided by lock lizard: http://www.locklizard.com/pdf_drm_security.htm I hope this helps, Michel
	Michel Korwin-Szymanowski EXP Systems LLC
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Steveboyy Newbie Joined: 22 Jun 11 Posts: 11	Posted: 02 Sep 12 at 4:37PM
	Thanks Michel. I think I will just password protect it and hope in a large organisation, after the initial viewing, the password will be lost over time. Steve.
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