FOP takes XML as input, not PDFs.  Why would FOP need to be able to
decrypt a PDF? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Anil Pinto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 5:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Programmatically supplying a password to open a password
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Thanks Andreas,

I looked at iText but was not sure it could do it as I saw this
statement somewhere on it's FAQ'a page at
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/faq.html

"Because decrypting an encrypted PDF-file is not possible with iText
(and it will never be) ........"

I was just thinking that if FOP can create PDFs it would be nice that it
could also provide a way to accept passwords and the type of encryption
used (if required) to get to the data stream.

Anil.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas L. Delmelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Programmatically supplying a password to open a password
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anil Pinto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

Hi Anil,

> I was wondering if the reverese is possible. What I am looking for is 
> to be able to programmatically open password protected PDFs (if the 
> correct password is provided) and access the data stream within the 
> program directly. Is this possible with FOP ?

No, but then again, FOP was never meant to open PDFs, just create them
(from XSL-FO documents)

>
> If not can anyone please guide me if there is any Java based tool 
> (preferably open source) that can do it.

Take a look at iText:
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/

IIC, this should allow you to manipulate PDFs, even encrypted ones.

HTH!

Greetz,

Andreas


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