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Did peek at Bernie's site and saw the "so ya wanna CD" text. Thanks
for the tip! Still, there should be a way to do it. Am looking at
Distiller documentation to see if there is an easy way to add a
header or footer that contains a serial number. If the documents
were serialized or contained a "Specially prepared for the exclusive
use of" statement, might make someone think twice about giving it all
away (each copy made would still have THEIR name on it). I have e-
mailed "sensitive" information via PDF before and just added
the 'specialty' footer to each page prior to Distilling. Seems to me
there should be a way for Distiller to do that automagically. My
printer driver can append a 'watermark' to each page so why not
something else? Anyway, if that process could be automated, Bernie
could burn a personalized/serialized CD instead of killing trees.

Guess I am just more trusting than I should be. I'll look into the
Distiller thing a bit more. That might be a good reason to upgrade
to version 6 if such a feature exists there. I really don't want to
be "the guy" to turn Electronotes into a CD but this security thing
shouldn't be insurmountable. I agree (with Bernie) that holding a
paper copy is best, especially if one wants to scratch notes on the
side, but I'd rather just print the couple of pages I'm interested in
at the moment and not have to worry about paper being the sole copy.
I wonder just how many copies of Electronotes (the early years) is
sold annually?

In any case, I will probably buy the whole shebang and scan the
issues of interest to me, over time. The thought of having all the
Electronotes issues (the old ones anyway) on my PDA is enticing.
Whenever I get bored (like when I'm visiting the in-laws) having such
interesting reading material in my shirt pocket would be way cool.
And having a footer on each page that has my name on it is fine by me.

Back in 1987 we had a flood here that destroyed many one-of-a-kind
papers I had collected over the years. About half of my Electronotes
collection was submerged. That painful experience is what motivates
my wanting printed matter on CD and not paper.

Cheers!
Tom Farrand