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Re: PDF document asking

by Andreas Delmelle-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On 28 May 2009, at 14:26, 3melie wrote:

Hi

> Thank you very much for your answers.
>
> I am using fop-0.95
>
> What I d like to do is to disable copying and editing of the PDF but
> withought having the file password protected.
> Is this possible?

Yes, but due to the mentioned issue (which still exists in 0.95) this  
may not work in some versions of Adobe Reader, and I know Preview on  
Mac OS has problems with that too. It depends on which /ID entry the  
viewer application actually uses.

If one leaves the user password blank, that should normally suffice to  
impose no restrictions on viewing.

Not sure if it is a possibility for you to download and build FOP  
Trunk. If you have Subversion and Ant available on your system, then  
it requires virtually no extra effort. Just check out with Subversion,  
navigate to FOP's root directory in a terminal window, and run 'ant  
package' to create the fop.jar.

see also: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html#source


HTH!

Andreas

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