Adding a date watermark to the downloaded article

[alirezaaa]

Hi,
We have had so many requests about adding the download time and journal's URL to the article that is being downloaded.
I'm not familiar with php coding so I've created a web service in C# which does the job.
It receives the PDF address and returns the modified file.
for example, this is the output (address, date and time of download are added to the left margin of each page):
http://www.medinfotechs.com/pdf/watermark.asmx/watermark?input=http://www.ijnmr.mui.ac.ir/index.php/ijnmr/article/view/505/432
This is just a test version and is not finished yet, but is functional.
Can any one help me adding this web service to OJS?
It could be added as a plugin which is accessed at the download time.
Any help is appreciated
Cheers,

[amitkawasthi]

I am intrested in such plugin. Would you share your C# code (idea) so that I could do something in PHP.

[alirezaaa]

I am using components in my code which are not supported in PHP and I don't know if there is a PHP version.
So, if we are going to use this components we have to either keep the webservice and call it from OJS or use the provided assembly in PHP like this.
http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/Using-the-.NET-Assembly-in-PHP/

Cheers,

[alirezaaa]

Hi everybody,
I managed to add the link of this webservice to pdf galley links in our journals' websites.
If you like to use this service too, you must add the mentioned link in article.tpl and issue.tpl files.
Cheers,

[jmacgreg]

Hi Alirezaaa,

That's a really interesting bit of functionality! I don't know of any way to do this via PHP natively myself, and the only other (quick) solution I could think of would be to timestamp the download file's filename itself. Can you control how and what is stamped into the PDF itself fairly easily?

Cheers,
James

[alirezaaa]

Hi James,
It is possible to control whatever is stamped through the parameters that is sent to the webservice (font name, size, color, contrast, position and time format).
The url would be something like http://...?input=(file_address)&font=...&color=...&xy=...&timeformat=.... and all the articles of a journal will use one setting.

Best,
Alireza

[sjournals]

Dear Alireza
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