Product Highlight from NMW 2006 - Worried about your cherished designs falling into the wrong hands? Rights management software can let you sleep at night. Pinion Software has line of software that can control access to your CAD files, allowing you to determine who, when and how long someone can see them. Peter White, Pinion's sales engineer demoed the software. You can view, zoom and pan, even measure but you can't Save or SaveAs. So tight is Pinion's security, it even disables the Windows copy commands. Don't even try the print screen function, Pinion is way ahead of you. You can set files to "self destruct" after a set time. I pictured smoke coming out of the computer and suggested that be done to Mission Impossible theme music. Mr. White laughed politely and said they would consider it. It's amazing what you can get away with being an editor.
Pinion makes its reader available freely (following the Adobe model of distribution) and charges for the Desktop Packager, on which rights are created.
Price is $299
Pinion Software makes a free product, AutoShred-DWF, that will provide restrictions on a DWF file and allow an expiration date to be set - sort of like milk.
Posted by: Chris Blocher | March 31, 2006 at 03:15 PM