Zipped file and PDF stamping

[karid08]

Hello,

I'm completely new at this. I just signed up with e-junkie and have so many questions. I will be selling only one product (for now). An e-book in pdf format with the sound files associated to it (it's a language book). In order to be able to sell it as a single product, I created a zipped file which contains the pdf and a subfolder with all the sound files.



Would I still be able to use the pdf stamping feature with this file configuration or would the product have to be a single pdf file in order to use the stamping?



Also, I created a secure pdf file to restrict certain features (like copy and paste or modifying the file). Would the stamping work even though the pdf is secure, or would I have to make a regular pdf (unsecured) in order to have it stamped?



Also, where is the stamp located? and can the position be changed?



Thank you in advance for any help.

[E-junkie_Guru]

PDF Stamping will only work with a Single File Download product that issues a single .pdf file as-is, not zipped together with other files.



If the sound files would be useless without the PDF, you might consider using Approach C described here to provide a download of the sound files separately:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.package.htm#bonus



However, if you need to issue each buyer a unique, expirable link to obtain the sound files, and you also want to use PDF Stamping, you'd need to set up the PDF and a .zip of the sound files as separate products, and then create a multiAdd to Cart button that adds both the PDF and sound-file products to the buyer's cart at once:

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/2121



The stamp will be applied in the upper-left corner of every page in each buyer's copy of your PDF. When you set up PDF Stamping, you can also have it disable printing and/or copy-paste in Stamped copies of your file; if you lock your original PDF, you would also need to provide the password to unlock the file when you set up PDF Stamping. See this help page for detailed instructions:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/selling-ebooks.htm



Our PDF Stamper creates a new PDF for each buyer which cannot retain any security settings from your original file; however, we do apply a randomized Master password with sensible security settings to every Stamped PDF:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/faq.pdf-stamping.permissions.htm

[karid08]

Thank you very much for your help. We want to have expirable links to the sound files as well, so we need to use the multiAdd to cart button code.

I'm not quite sure how to use it though. Do I just replace the Add to cart button code that was generated for one of the products, for the following multiAdd code (from the link above)?:



<a href="javascript:EJEJC_multiAdd(Array(

'https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=cart&i=YYYYYY&cl=XXXXXX&ejc=2',

'https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=cart&i=ZZZZZZ&cl=XXXXXX&ejc=2'

));"><img src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/ejadd_to_cart.gif" alt="Add to Cart" border="0"/></a>



And just insert the two URL's generated by each one of the codes generated for my products? Don't know if it's clear. Lets say the codes generated the two items I want to ad are (I changed the actual urls though):



<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/xxxxxxxxx1" target="ejejc" class="ec_ejc_thkbx" onClick="javascript:return EJEJC_lc(this);"><img src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/ejadd_to_cart.gif" border="0" alt="Add to Cart"/></a>



<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/xxxxxxxxx2" target="ejejc" class="ec_ejc_thkbx" onClick="javascript:return EJEJC_lc(this);"><img src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/ejadd_to_cart.gif" border="0" alt="Add to Cart"/></a>



So I just copy the 2 urls (https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/xxxxxxxxx1 and https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/xxxxxxxxx2) and use them like this:



<a href="javascript:EJEJC_multiAdd(Array(

'https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/xxxxxxxxx1',

'https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/xxxxxxxxx2'));"><img src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/ejadd_to_cart.gif" alt="Add to Cart" border="0"/></a>



And that's it? I'm really sorry, I'm not that knowledgeable and don't really know javascript. I really do appreciate your help.



Also, what's the difference between the e-junkie buttons and the Paypal buttons? Would I not be able to use the Paypal button given my particular requirements?



Also, once the buyer is ready to pay, does it take him to the PayPal website to finish the transaction? I just want to make sure my customers feel comfortable by seeing that they are doing the actual payment via PayPal and that our website is not taking any of their credit card information.

Thank you very much for your help!

[karid08]

Thank you very much for your help. We want to have expirable links to the sound files as well, so we need to use the multiAdd to cart button code.

I'm not quite sure how to use it though. Do I just replace the Add to cart button code that was generated for one of the products, for the following multiAdd code (from the link above)?:



<a href="javascript:EJEJC_multiAdd(Array(

'https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=cart&i=YYYYYY&cl=XXXXXX&ejc=2',

'https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=cart&i=ZZZZZZ&cl=XXXXXX&ejc=2'

));"><img src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/ejadd_to_cart.gif" alt="Add to Cart" border="0"/></a>



And just insert the two URL's generated by each one of the codes generated for my products? Don't know if it's clear. Lets say the codes generated the two items I want to ad are (I changed the actual urls though):



<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/xxxxxxxxx1" target="ejejc" class="ec_ejc_thkbx" onClick="javascript:return EJEJC_lc(this);"><img src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/ejadd_to_cart.gif" border="0" alt="Add to Cart"/></a>



<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/xxxxxxxxx2" target="ejejc" class="ec_ejc_thkbx" onClick="javascript:return EJEJC_lc(this);"><img src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/ejadd_to_cart.gif" border="0" alt="Add to Cart"/></a>



So I just copy the 2 urls (https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/xxxxxxxxx1 and https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/xxxxxxxxx2) and use them like this:



<a href="javascript:EJEJC_multiAdd(Array(

'https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/xxxxxxxxx1',

'https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/xxxxxxxxx2'));"><img src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/ejadd_to_cart.gif" alt="Add to Cart" border="0"/></a>



And that's it? I'm really sorry, I'm not that knowledgeable and don't really know javascript. I really do appreciate your help.



Also, what's the difference between the e-junkie buttons and the Paypal buttons? Would I not be able to use the Paypal button given my particular requirements?



Also, once the buyer is ready to pay, does it take him to the PayPal website to finish the transaction? I just want to make sure my customers feel comfortable by seeing that they are doing the actual payment via PayPal and that our website is not taking any of their credit card information.

Thank you very much for your help!

[E-junkie_Guru]

Yes, that's it; you've got the multiAdd to Cart button construction method correct. Also take care that you copy your View Cart code from Seller Admin (it's the same for all your products) and paste that at least once into every page that has any number of Cart buttons.



You must use the button codes we provide to sell your products if you want us to process your orders for those products (issue download links, etc.). The standard E-junkie shopping cart will offer your buyers a PayPal-logo checkout button that takes them to PayPal's checkout site, so you do NOT need to use the "PayPal Cart" button codes we offer if you simply want to accept PayPal checkout payments.



Those PayPal Cart buttons were originally meant to allow using PayPal's shopping cart interface instead of the standard E-junkie shopping cart, but they no longer work properly in many regards due to recent changes at PayPal's end that we've been unable to work around, so we're removing those codes in the next version of Seller Admin that we're building.