At 04:42 PM 7/27/01 +0100, Ralph Bruno wrote:
>I'm using FOP 0.19 and Acrobat 5, and whenever I try to export my
>FOP-generated pdf to rtf, all I get are seemingly blank pages, but it is in
>fact white text on a white background (In case you're wondering, my original
>pdf is black, red and grey text on white).
>
>I contacted Adobe technical support and they've informed me that it's a
>result of the security settings in my pdf - it's been set for non-copying of
>text. Obviously the only place it could have been set is in the FOP code.
>How do I change it to allow copying?
Adobe technical support does exactly what all other big-company support
folks do as a first line of defense - blame someone else. In fact, FOP
contains precisely zero source code to put an Encrypt key in the PDF
document trailer dictionary, and hence it is not possible for documents
produced by FOP, out of the box, to have security.
If you produce a document with FOP, and look at the document security, not
only will it tell you that you can print and copy text to your heart's
content, but also that there is no security method.
When you say Acrobat 5, I'm guessing you mean Acrobat Exchange. Well, that
is the only part of this whole equation that can set security, and so Adobe
support lied to you. OK, let's be charitable - they didn't know any better.
Given my experience with customer/technical support for big companies that
is a very plausible explanation.
I'm a bit irritable because I'm just coming off a 12-hour day wrestling with
idiosyncracies of a J2EE server which shall go unnamed, and has involved a
certain support system for 6 weeks to no avail, so I'm venting a bit at
Adobe's expense. They actually deserve the flak to some degree, anyway.
Seriously, though, did you inspect the FOP-produced doc using _Reader_? As
soon as FOP produced it?
Regards,
Arved Sandstrom
Fairly Senior Software Type
e-plicity (http://www.e-plicity.com)
Wireless * B2B * J2EE * XML --- Halifax, Nova Scotia
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