The short answer is yes, you can do a lot of this. The way I would do this in SuSE is to use LaTeX with the hyperref package. This is a little harder than using (say) OpenOffice but is more flexible and produces much higher quality output than you can get from any word processor. I can send you an example pdf file to give you an idea. You probably need a manual to use LaTeX easily, though much of LaTeX is devoted to typesetting penalty copy. The book by Leslie Lamport is excellent. The LaTeX graphics Companion describes hyperref and pdfTeX (another way tof generating pdf) in detail. On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 12:26 +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
1. I want to make "real" pdf files, not just pictures converted into pdf files. Both Openoffice and LaTeX do this. I want that the pages than are search able, LaTeX supports this through hyperref. can have links included, Both LaTeX and OpenOffice will do this. can have sound and movie files included (not sure if that is possible, if not than I would solve it with links) I'm not sure it's possible either within a PDF file, but you can certainly link to video and sound. How can I do that? Is there a program available under Linux?
2. I want to make a pdf as copy protected, whatever that means in detail. I want to write information in pdf, but I want that the user can open it, with a password, but cannot copy it to another computer and open it there again. I don't know if LaTeX or pdfTex offer these options but you could investigate. Probably you could use Acrobat to do the conversion for you from a PDF file you created.
You can use forms in LaTeX/hyperref and you could ask users for a password on the first page. That may be enough to do what you want, especially as no file is truly uncopiable.
3. I want to brand the pdf file, like with an additional page and info on each page.
Possible in both LaTeX and OpenOffice.
I am thinking on adding at an A4 page a small strip on the right side with this info. The original should be only A4, but the branded copies should be A4 plus 1 cm info at the right side (A4 is 297 x 210, the new pages should be 297 x 220). I am looking for a function convert original-book to branded-book with-info "That copy is for Alexander, brought to you by ...." to do that on each page at once. LaTeX is better designed to do this because word-processors are not designed to print regular information on sidemargins. 4. I want disallow to print the pages with the print function (I know with print screen you still can print it.) I don't know if you can do this.
-- JDL