Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
Of course Ghostscript and iText do not. ;]
Any tool based on iText will do. (PDFLab on OS X works) Ghostscript tends to create giant files when processing encrypted PDFs (30MB -> 800MB ;)
I think you will maybe not be able to use "PDF" in your software name but you can still refer to Adobe PDF (tm) in your description and documentation.
AFAIK you cannot say you read and write PDF(tm) files. There was a simillar case with Philips saying you can't call a protected CD a CD-Audio (and it was enforced - you won't find a CD-Audio logo on copy protected CDs).
I'm not arguing about technical merits of this ,,security'' (there are none) and the whole thing is misleading to users (who may think that this is technicaly enforcable). OTOH there is some enforcement since many people won't use a noname tool and big tools won't offer such features.
To summarize: I don't lock my PDFs and discourage others who want to. -- regards, Jakub Piotr Cłapa -- Neko : One VM to run them all (http://nekovm.org)
