At 3:53 PM +0200 5/21/02, Andreas Gerhard wrote:
>i want to encrypt an existing PDF, but all form-fields are gone... any
>suggestions?
>
>Is there a way to keep the fields or to convert them to text, before I
>encrypt the file?
>

        Not using iText, no.   The way that encrypts an existing file 
is to copy ON THE CONTENT from the old file into the new one and then 
encrypt the new one.

        You'll need to look elsewhere - such as SecurSign 
(http://www.appligent.com) which has a nice Java API.


Leonard
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