Hello!
If I receive a file (tiff, eps, psd etc. ) that's made in Photoshop (7, CS, CS2 etc.) can I see information witch license the user that have sent me the file have on his computer of Photoshop? Do I get any information at all from the file on the license issue.
//Java_Girl
#1
No.
#2
I'm not sure exactly what info you're looking for, but check the metadata info using Bridge.
Bob
#3
But the only thing that I will see there is what kind of application it's made from (Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows). I want to know what license the user who sent me the Photoshop file has.
#4
What do you mean by license information?
Bob
#5
Your license for purchasing Photoshop
#6
I hate to sound rude, but what business is that of yours?
Bob
#7
I wonder if that's possible to check just from a file.
#8
No. And I don't see why anyone would need that information anyway.
Bob
#9
Maybe some people are interested if you have a cracked Photoshop
#10
adobe certainly is! :)
#11
Maybe some people are interested if you have a cracked Photoshop
And having licence info flying around the net with every file created would make it real eaasy to crack a software now wouldn't it?
Leave the pirate hunting to the navy
#12
Macromedia embedded code into Dreamweaver output to verify whether the app was legit or not. You see what happened to them.
#13
I'm not hunting pirates I just wanted to know if it where possible or not and that because I've heard some rumors going around.
#14
<blockquote><tt> Macromedia embedded code into Dreamweaver output to verify whether the app was legit or not. You see what happened to them. </tt></blockquote><br><br>Huh? DW creates HTML. HTML is ascii. How do you hide anything in a text file?
#15
I just wanted to know if it where possible or not and that because I've heard some rumors going around.
the answer is yes. they do it all the time then scan the images on the web and if they find it was created with a pirated version they sick the BSA on you, toot sweet.
#16
<turns up coat collar; pulls down brim of Fedora>
#17
<Peter Lorre voice>
"But what you don't understand is, the Photoshop licence is in the Maltese Falcon..."
</Peter Lorre voice>
#18
Hey Java Girl...
Are you worried because you have a cracked copy and don't want to give anyone any files that they might be able to tell that you are using an illegal copy from?
Just a thought...
I just wonder why anyone would need to know that about anyone else's files at all... That is between the software giants, the law, and the person who is using illegally, right? I don't think it matters if you get a file from someone that was created using an illegal copy of anything does it? I mean, unless you are going to in-turn pass the file off as your own or something and don't want to get in trouble?
Interesting.
#19
Huh? DW creates HTML. HTML is ascii. How do you hide anything in a text file?
Embedded was probably the wrong word. Licensing info, or the lack of it, was supposedly appended to DW output circa DW3. I never used it so I really can't say. Except I already did. :)
#20
I just wanted to know if it was possible or not... and if it was and someone here knew how, I might be able to use the ground idea when I or someone else is making a program that we want to control license of in a bigger or smaller scale.
One idea can turn into many others...
#21
java girl
Look into Digimarc (or is it with a k). It is technology that allows you to track images. Not with the serial number of Photoshop used, but with some other interesting tricks. It might be what you are looking for, or take you along the path to where you want to go.
#22