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!