Would you be so graceous as to share the code you use to do this? I am quite new to Java, so I could use the leg up. Tx :)
-- David B. Bitton [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.codenoevil.com Diversa ab illis virtute valemus. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manuel Mall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 9:51 PM Subject: RE: Encryption > David, > > You are correct both solutions are post processing type solutions, ie. it is > an additional step after the XSL-FO -> PDF conversion. I am pretty certain > FOP, in its current version, cannot do it. The question for you is if you > can modify your PDF server to perform this additional step, eg. first > produce a temporary PDF file on disk using FOP and then call for example the > pdcat tool to copy the temporary PDF file to its permanent home and apply > the encryption while doing it. This is how we do it here within a Tomcat > hosted servlet. > > Manuel > > -----Original Message----- > From: David B. Bitton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2002 10:41 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Encryption > > > I quickly looked at iText, and that is not a XSL-FO -> PDF engine. > RenderX's XEP Java app does do encryption, but they are not a viable option > for us. Where in the FOP process could we hotwire some encryption? > > Also, the command line app won't work because we want the write the file > directly to disk for immediate availability to the browser. The creating of > the PDF will be the result of a SOAP call to our PDF server, posting the > XSL-FO data. > > -- > > David B. Bitton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.codenoevil.com > > Diversa ab illis virtute valemus. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Manuel Mall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:17 PM > Subject: RE: Encryption > > > > To apply encryption to FOP generated PDF files we post process the files > > with a command line tool called pdcat from a PDF tools set available from > > http://pdf.glance.ch. > > > > If you are looking for an all Java solution I believe iText from > > http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ also allows encryption (but no decryption). > > > > Manuel > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2002 2:57 > > To: fop-dev > > Subject: Encryption > > > > > > What is involved in encrypting the outputted PDF? Is this something that > is > > simple to implement? If someone can point me in the right direction, I'd > > appreciate it. :) > > > > -- > > > > David B. Bitton > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.codenoevil.com > > > > Diversa ab illis virtute valemus. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
