Re: PDF Security

Alfred Reibenschuh <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:18:27 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.pdfapi2
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Todd Hamilton wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.  I wasn't clear enough in my
> last email sorry about that.  Let me start over.  I
> want to make it so the users of my document management
> system use a custom print method I developed (server
> side vs client side)  instead of the print button in
> the acrobat reader browser plug in.  One of the things
> i would like to do is at the pdf level, restrict print
> permissions.

way would you print at the server instead of the client?

pdfapi2 does not support encryption of pdfs, and encryption
(although a silly one) is the base for the print permission.

please note that any such restrictions are easily broken
if the client can simply view the pdf :).


C

fredo
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Schonmal davon gehoert, dass nicht jeder linux user gleich ein
programmierer ist, der alles, was er selber braucht, auch selber
programmiert, installiert, patched, hacked oder portiert?

Urks?  Das ist doch nur eine Legende.....
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