Wiadomość napisana w dniu 2009-02-11, o godz. 15:20, przez Alexandru  
Stanoi:

> Jérôme Renard wrote:
>> Hi Kore,
>> Kore Nordmann a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Find the PDF generation requirements document for the document  
>>> component
>>> attached.
>>>
>>> This document offers a first discussion base for a requirements
>>> specification of PDF generation, which is on the roadmap for this
>>> release cycle. It does not involve reading PDF (which would mean
>>> converting PDF to Docbook).
>>>
>>> The design and implementation of the PDF generation will be  
>>> discussed
>>> once we agreed on the requirements.
>> The document looks good, thanks for writing it.
>> I have a question though :
>> how about PDF document protection ?
>> Is this something we should take into account (not necessarily for  
>> the first releases) ?
>> I am quite sure we  will have to following use case in a near  
>> future :
>> An editor creates a document and plan to send it to someone else
>> but want to protect it. I remember this can be done in Adobe's  
>> software
>> but I do not know if this is done within the PDF file or somewhere  
>> else.
>> Do you think that adding document proctection is possible in the  
>> Document
>> component, at least for PDFs ?
>
> Using open-source software to create protected content - nice. :)
>
> Why not also create a component which can add DRM to music and video?

Password protected PDF (or protected against edit) are very common  
actually. Similar to password protected rar or zip archive. Editor  
should have a possibility IMHO.

On the other hand there is ton of software fly around which allow you  
to break such protection :)

Łukasz


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