You must however understand that while the ADE client is free, Content Server is extremely expensive to run, as not only do you need to buy the software, but you need to have an active connection to a live signing server, and of course a method of taking payments and entering each customer into the ACS database. The content itself is secured by Adobe Content Server 4, which handles all the DRM for each book and customer: they won't have their own digital IDs), the only realistic solution is to use something like PDF/A served over Adobe Digital Editions: ĪDE is a free downloadable reader application that can display eBooks in several formats, which are protected against copying using DRM, so you can rent and sell copies with total control over who can do what and where, and all the customer needs is to create an Adobe ID for their email address - not a digital certificate.
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In theory yes, but given your need to handle lots of customers outside your control (i.e. Thanks for confirming (or if not, correcting) my understanding. However, in reading what both of you have written, (i) getting an Acrobat Digital ID from each purchaser, then (ii) assigning a certificate to each buyer that gives printing permission to the pdfs that they purchase, should solve my problem. In reading through all the security material, it would appear that the use of passwords will not work. This situation, of course, means lost profits to our business.
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In particular, we want to PREVENT the situation where a potential unscrupulous purchaser of our pdf product should happen to e-mail our pdf as an attachment to a friend or student and that individual, who did NOT pay for our product, attempts to print our pdf. My situation appears to be similar to KN in that I want to RESTRICT the printing of the pdf downloads (which are sheet music arrangements that we are selling at to just those individuals who actually made the purchase of our downloads. Not to continue beating a dead horse, but I am very new to Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional, just having downloaded the trial version to see if it will meet my business needs.