[Dspace-general] Display/render pdf as image

[Shane Beers]

Panagiotis:

While that kind of solution might be technically possible with some  
hacking outside of DSpace, it is very much moving away from one of the  
fundamental points of an Institutional Repository, which is open  
access to research information. By making the material in the  
repository not available for public copy or downloading, it's putting  
a barrier in place that is more-or-less philosophically opposed to the  
goals of most repositories.

If you do wish to keep material private, there are better solutions  
for a closed/dark archive than DSpace. Your budget and technological  
skills are the limiting factors, of course.


Shane Beers
Digital Repository Services Librarian
George Mason University
sbeers at gmu.edu
http://mars.gmu.edu
703-993-3742



On Jul 8, 2008, at 3:00 AM, Panagiotis Kontaxis wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I would like to ask if I can render and display the pages of a pdf  
> file as images and prevent public from download it, to avoid direct  
> text copy from public users. (for example using and external script  
> ImageMagick/Ghostscript)
>
> Thanks,
> Panagiotis
>
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