--- Dirk Versavel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear FOP users,
> 
> Is there a way to generate PDF in which the security property 'Text
> selection' is switched off?

Er - dunno. Sorry.

> If this is not possible using FOP, does any one know how to postprocess a
> PDF (automatically on a Linux machine) to switch this text selction off?

I seem to recall someone talking about some PDF post processors which could add
in the security features built into PDF. No doubt Adobe Acrobat could do it, 
but I assume you want something a bit less heavilyweight.
Looking at the archives 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&w=2&r=1&s=security&q=b


An article by Arved on the 28th of July 2001 said 

... 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.

Perhaps you could investigate whether there are some open source pdf post processors
and email your findings here.

Thanks

Alex


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