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[Bob Rasmussen]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Fairlight wrote:

> ...
> But if, say, one was putting out bills with a person's name, address, and
> something like a SSN or account number, then you're in the realm of
> personally identifying information.  That shouldn't be passed through
> insecure channels, and email then becomes a poor choice.  If that kind of
> combined, identifying information is necessary for the bill (or just part
> of the standard bill), then it's time to look at redacting, or doing a
> "come to us" scenario with an SSL-protected web site and email alerts
> combined.

Anyone sending a SSN must have their head in the sand (or worse). But you 
raise an interesting point.

> 
> That said, PrintWizard is a great choice for doing PDFs for either
> solution.  And, having considered the scenario a bit more, I toss you a
> feature to maybe implement...  Give PrintWizard the ability to set security
> settings, including PDF passwords and restrictions, all from the command
> line.  If one could at least password protect the PDF, it would be a
> different story.  Granted, this assumes that people have signed up for an
> account ahead of time (which I'm not sure is the case in Rich's scenario)
> and gotten a password assigned.  But in scenarios where a pre-existing
> password/account had been generated, the ability to pull and use that
> information when generating PrintWiz-made PDF files would be stellar.  I
> actually don't know of a CLI utility that has that functionality, either.
> The ability to set this stuff on the fly might give you a leg up in the big
> picture.
> 

Print Wizard DOES have the ability to set the password in the command 
line:
   printwiz.exe someinputfile /fPDF://outfile.pdf?user=dkfjgh?owner=eiruty

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