Securing a PDF

[cedwa]

Does anybody know of a way to secure a PDF so that it is not editable in Acrobat? We are using JasperReports to generate "official" transcript-type documents and want to limit people's ability to modify a PDF after it's been dynamically generated. I had no luck with Google or the forum search.

 

Any links would be helpful as well.

 

Thanks in advance

[arunvishvin]

Hi,

Are you using Jasper Reports to export PDF files

[martynhiemstra]

No matter what, the free version of acrobat reader makes it impossible to edit pdf's.

 

I'm not sure but when you are using iText to generate pdf's then it's impossible to secure pdf's. I did finf a way to sign a report:

 

http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/howtosign.html

[rafa.ferreira]

Hy brow...

 

Take a look on the generates parameters that you can set to your PDF generator.

 

Take a look in this code

 

Code:

exporter = new JRPdfExporter();
// @see com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
exporter.setParameter(JRPdfExporterParameter.PERMISSIONS, new Integer(PdfWriter.AllowCopy | PdfWriter.AllowPrinting));

 

I'm not needing that you want but in this JRPdfExporterParameter.PERMISSIONS you can set!!

 

Take a deep look in this com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter

 

Good luck