[Eril-l] Creating PDFs with DRM

[Melissa Belvadi]

There is absolutely no way to provide access to a PDF AND disallow
downloading, because the very way that web clients work is that content
gets downloaded in the process of being delivered to the client.

We provide proxied PDF access using our Drupal web server.  That's actually
where we have all of our e-reserves too.

Drupal is a free (as in kittens, not as in beer) open source web platform.
There are probably plugins for it that can be combined with an ezproxy
server to deliver PDFs through a one-page-at-a-time embedded display.

Our own Islandora system can deliver TIFFs this way (which PDFs are easily
converted to), and it's all free too, using Drupal and Fedora, but unless
you have a serious systems team, that's probably too much work to set up
for just a few documents.

Melissa

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Mackinder, Lisa <mackinde at ohio.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
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> We receive proprietary PDFs from a third-party as donations.  Rather than
> incur the expense of printing and binding them to add to the collection,
> we’d like to provide access electronically.  However, the third party wants
> assurances that we can prevent downloading and printing of the PDFs.  So
> I’m exploring this possibility.
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> Does anyone have any experience with a way to accomplish this type of
> protection?  I’m thinking there must be a product or platform out there
> that can take a PDF and provide DRM restrictions to it to limit downloading
> and printing.
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> Thanks for your help,
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> Lisa
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> Lisa Mackinder *|* Head of Acquisitions and Collections Services
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> Alden Library *|* Ohio University
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> 740-593-2707 *|* mackinde at ohio.edu
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Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
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