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Tuesday, December 12, 2006 — posted by Alan Pringle
We are experimenting with the new Adobe Document Center, which allows us to protect PDF-based content.
Our Publishing Fundamentals: FrameMaker 7 (book information) is now available as a secured PDF. (Yep, all 878 pages of it.)
Unfortunately, you have to jump through some hoops:
- You need Acrobat Reader 7 or later.
- To access the file, you need an Adobe ID. Go to adobe.com to set up your (free) Adobe ID if you don't have one. (In theory, you can set up the ID when you click on the file, but this is not working for us.)
- In our testing, it has taken up to 15 minutes to get the ID configured properly. Sorry...
Once you set up your Adobe ID, click on this link to open the PDF (6.5 MB):
You won't be able to print, copy, or edit the PDF file. Access to the file will be revoked after December 31, 2006.
Please let us know what you think. Some things we are wondering about:
- Would you be interesting in purchasing our content as protected PDFs?
- Is the process too clunky?
- Would you purchase a PDF that doesn't allow you to print (or would you pay more for a PDF that allows printing)?
- Would you want a book both in printed and PDF format (a specially priced bundle)?
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