How to track opens and pageviews in PDFs?

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Published on 2011-08-10T14:30:53Z Indexed on 2012/12/17 23:14 UTC
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I know how to track clicks in links to pdfs and pfd's downloads.

But I need to track how many times a PDF is opened after being downloaded and if possible track how many times certain pages are shown to users. Tracking has to be done without warnings that personal information is being sent somewhere. I do not want readers personal informations, just to know how many opens happened, so this warnings would be inaccurate.

Can anyone help by pointing to a tutorial or an example?

If you are sure that this can't be done, can you please point to documentation that explains why?

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