Hi

I have a client who wants us to build a simple extranet site where users login and access documents - simple enough.

However, they want to dynamically watermark the PDFs on their site with the login information of the user.

I have read that Adobe Lifecycle can do this. Does anyone know anything about this, or if there are any other ways to dynamically watermark PDFs.

Programming platform would be either .NET or PHP - we haven't started the project yet, so we're still free to make that choice.

Thanks

Richard

I know you said you're using .NET or PHP, but if you're not limited to technologies, pdf manipulation including watermarking is built into ColdFusion..



http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_p-q_02.html

Hi

Thanks Jason101 for the suggestion. We have never used CF for anything, so ideally we would like a technology that we're familiar with.

Will definitely explore that CF option, but if anyone has any other suggestions that would be great.

Thanks

Richard

This appears to be the reference every one is using:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/watermark-images-php/

Does that one edit pdf's? There's very few other tutorials around specifically about pdf watermarking with php. Someone was kind enough to post their code in the discussion below:

http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showtopic35317.htm

Personally I stay away from colf fusion simply due to the costs.

In .net it would be a lot flexible and powerful.
I made a pdf watermarking application using C#

http://watermark-images.com/pdf-watermark.aspx