PDF Document Restriction

I want to be able to ensure that only one person at a time can open a PDF or gives you a warning when the document is already open - much like MS Office documents do when you try to open a document someone else has opened.
At the moment - the only way to know someone else has the document open is when you go to save the document and you get a message saying it is already open would you like to save it as another document name.
Any ideas/suggestions? This is causing me a bit of grief as I have to combine, by copying and pasting changes/comments from multiple documents into one document.
Thanks!

Uhg! Major source of big time corrupttion.
The reason Offie Application (Mac or PC) lock a file so only one person can working a file at time is to prevent serious file corruption. what were the braniacs at adobe thinking of?

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Thanks for coming to my aid again.
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That's interesting about how the PDF file is made. I thought PDF would be a native format and chose it for "compatibility". I'm not sure if everyone have apps that can handle TIFFs (especially on the PC side). My recollection from scanning in the 90s with my Paperport is that TIFFs can print "huge" or "teeny" depending on the settings it was scanned at.
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Yes, thats right. I used Open Office 3 to generate the pdf. I have also tried using pdftk and Adobe Distiller 5 with the same result.
Your statement implies, the 'Adobe Reader' features cannot be fully utilized without a valid Adobe Acrobat Pro.
This is a document to which I have the source. I have been able to create the pdf with the required set of permissions based on standards. But I am being hassled because I didn't generate it with Adobe Pro! Well, I suppose this must have been a business decision, but its one thats standards contrary and morally low!
Adobe just lost an avid Reader user. I shall circulate my findings within my work and social circles. Thanks to competition and open source, I am sure to find a standards compliant reader without much delay.
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