First off, kudos to Bruno, Paulo and the other contributers for
creating and maintaining a very capable and stable toolkit. I would
without hesitation recommend Bruno's book for anyone deploying iText
in a production application, a single tip or best practice suggestion
more than repays the cost of the book.
I hope this question doesn't stray too far off topic into Adobe product land...
I have a pdf created and protected by an Adobe LiveCycle policy, I am
experimenting to see if my existing iText based application can
consume such a document. I am not trying to circumvent the policy
protection (at least in spirit), it is a document I own. Unfortunately
I don't get very far (using iText 2.0.8 - PdfReader(InputStream) ):
java.io.IOException
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.readPdf(Unknown Source)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
When opened in Adobe Reader, the document properties show that it is
encrypted and protected by a LiveCycle policy, however there is no
user password required to open.
I can guess that the quick explanation is that iText is not capable of
consuming the LiveCycle encrypted content, my question is twofold for
anyone with a bit more Adobe and iText experience than I have:
Can anyone confirm that reading a LiveCycle policy protected document
with iText is not possible?
If my iText application processed the document first, and added a
master & user password, could LiveCycle add policy protection after
the fact while preserving the password protection added by iText?
Thanks,
Greg
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