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Building a PDF Standards Library

wadavis (Structural)

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6 Jun 17 16:37

Any recommendations for Standard (API/CSA) vendors that have reasonable DRM?

Over the years our standards library has become littered with PDFs locked to specific computers with no one knowing how to access them. Looking for a better way to do things here.

Structural, Alberta

appot (Structural) · Answer 1 · 2017-06-06 17:19:00

One solution would be to have a central computer to be used as the library.

I can imagine a lot of pushback on this idea, but it is no different than walking to the bookshelf to grab a book.

I am also interested to hear what others are doing.

swertel (Mechanical) · Answer 2 · 2017-06-06 17:25:12

Do you subscribe ti IHS Markit or SAI Global?

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SwinnyGG (Mechanical) · Answer 3 · 2017-06-06 19:09:15

Our standards library, which is vast, is either open .PDF documents or .PDF documents with DRM which were opened by the user and then printed to .PDF and thus are now open, or .PDF documents with DRM tied to the 'computer' (server) they are on.

Mr168 (Materials) · Answer 4 · 2017-06-06 20:19:06

Another IHS user here.

May want to look into the legality and feasibility of a single computer license accessed remotely via Citrix or equivalent.

IRstuff (Aerospace) · Answer 5 · 2017-06-07 06:42:44

I think that if you can guarantee that one, and only one, person is able to access any given file at any time, you should be within the limits of your license.

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Retrograde (Structural) · Answer 6 · 2017-06-07 22:28:58

Sometimes if you disable JavaScript you can get around the DRM stuff.

To be clear - I am not advocating licensing infringement!

dbill74 (Mechanical) · Answer 7 · 2017-06-12 14:41:17

Call me old school, but ink and paper is my preferred media for reading codes and standards.

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