Re: Keeping track of when a user prints a PDF?

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad, do a Google search for "printer page counter" and you'll find a 
number of products that may do what you want.  Here's a link to one of them:

http://tinyurl.com/35dzua


Bradley V. Stone wrote:
> I have an odd situation here.
>
> Working on a project for a place that allows users to log in and view PDF
> files (basically documents, maps, etc).
>
> The application lets the user view the PDF, but the customer also is
> possibly looking for a way to know when the user prints the PDF.
>
> I know, probably impossible, but, just checking just in case there is
> something I overlooked.
>
> So basically it works like this:
>
> 1.  Users displays a list of documents
> 2.  user clicks on a link to view the PDF file for that document
> 3.  When they click Print in the PDF viewer, somehow we know so we can
> charge for it.
>
> There are 100 ways around this, such as saving local copies, etc...  but
> looking for something that for most of the world (ie, non-tech savvy) may
> work.
>
> Trust me, I've already ran the "pay per view" where they would pay for each
> document they view and right now that's not what they're looking for.
>
> Bradley V. Stone
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