Net-It Now - Instant document publishing for secure document sharing.
Creates files similar to .PDF with sophisticated digital rights
management of some sort.
They claim their format offers some advantages over publishing as .PDF
such as creating a separate file for each page of a large document
instead of one huge file. I don't know how their reader compares to
Adobe's (e.g., searching across all those files).
A few of you may have seen a predecessor. The print driver for Net-It
Now! (note "!") was included in older versions of Lotus SmartSuite.
I haven't downloaded it, but my guess is that the initial model was to
charge for the writer and to provide the reader and various plug-ins
to products like AutoCAD for free. It looks like they have flipped
the model: reading and basic creation are free and various plug-ins
aren't. Either way, they also want to sell Net-It Now Central.
BillR
Site Excerpts
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Net-It® Now is a client-side publishing utility that converts your
files to CSF (content secure format), a compressed format that allows
you to add Visual Rights™, including password protection, an
expiration date, and feature restrictions, to your files (see below).
Files are viewable with the free (and freely distributable) Brava!
Reader. [Print, annotation and redaction, etc., also supported.]
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.... Net-It® Now CSF writer for Windows will be available as freeware.
Net-It Now enables secure and efficient sharing of document and design
content by publishing it to CSF (content sealed format) with Visual
Rights™ protection, regardless of the application used to create the
content.
Users can create a CSF file simply by selecting the Net-It Now printer
name (for Microsoft Office applications there is an even more
convenient toolbar button and menu command). Net-It Now publishes
files by capturing high-resolution vector and raster-based print
streams from most Windows applications, including Microsoft Word,
Visio and Project; WordPerfect; image-layout programs such as
Photoshop® and Quark Express™; and even CAD applications. IGC also
offers specific CAD system plug-ins [for $, I think] that provide
optimized CSF output with enhanced CAD support, including 3D.
Visual Rights is IGC's integrated security controls that can be
applied during CSF publishing. Users can create CSF files from
drawings, documents and images, and can add controls such as password
protection, hard or relative viewing expiration dates and
allow/disallow printing, copying and measurement. CSF files are
compressed and AES 256 bit-encrypted.
