Imagine the following:
- I have a bunch of Word docs on my server.
- I have a bunch of subscriber email addresses.
- I have users who will, on request, use my web service to send the Word documents to appropriate email addresses.
- I want to be able to report on who got sent what.
The decision to send is going to be a very manual process. The users will speak to subscribers on the phone, discussing their requirements, and selecting which doc to send. In order to do this, the user will need read access to the docs.
My problem is that if the user can just view the word doc in their browser, they can also save it locally and email it directly to the subscribers, bypassing any logging I can do.
What I would like is to give the user a legible, but munged read-only copy of the document. What I'm thinking of is automatically creating a PDF from the Word doc with some semi-transparent stamp on it. This would allow the user to read the doc while chatting with the subscriber, but force them to send an original from the site.
Am I barking mad? Or has some kindly soul built some library functions for converting docs to pdfs?
Or maybe you can think of some other way I can achieve this?
Thanks,
Jack
