Members Only Watermarker
Monday, February 15, 2010
(Members Only Software, Inc.)
How can you disseminate your products freely, and yet discourage widespread
copying and sharing of materials that cost you money to prepare? One way
to is personalize each outgoing document some way. But this is difficult if you
want to distribute the product an automated process, like your online
store. That's why we created The Members Only Watermarking Demon. The Watermarker watches your
document sales, and can grab a document and stamp user information just before
it is downloaded.
Inspired by a request from one of our users,
the Watermarking Demon runs as a service on your database server and watches for
requests to be dropped into its queue. When it gets one, it finds the referenced
pdf document, stamp a user configurable watermark on it, and gives the resultant
file a name specified in the call. The new name might, for example, have
the order number or member ID appended to the original name.
On the
Watermarker's configuration tab, you can set the font, color, and page position
of the watermark, and embed optional fields in your stamp, such as the date and
time, the customer name, or the order number.
What's more, the Demon can
then either email the file to the customer, or transfer it via ftp to your web
server for subsequent download.
Since the Demon runs as a separate
service, it can be configured to work not only with our OS/MOsys online store,
but with other software for document distribution. It's just in its first
version - so we're eager to hear your ideas about how a tool like this can
simply your document distribution chores!