RE: Can you figure out what tools produced a PDF?

[Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Responding to Nancy Allison, Lee Fisher wrote:
 

> > Is this a dead end, or is it possible to figure out what applications
> > use this dll? Under what circumstances would a PDF list this dll as
> > the application, instead of Word, Frame, XMetal, or some other
> > application?
> 
> You're trying to track down who is using a particular Windows DLL? Try 
> SysInternal's Process Explorer. Start logging before you do your PDF 
> stuff, then stop logging, and use ProcExplorer's filtering abilities to 
> search just for this dll name. That should show you how the DLL is used 
> in the system, and by what app(s).
> 
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653

What Nancy was asking about was whether it is possible to find out what application *on*someone*else's*system* generated the output that was processed through the Distiller DLL to produce a publicly distributed PDF. There's no issue of being able to monitor processes on one's own system to see who's using what.
 
-Fred Ridder
 
  		 	   		  
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