If there's no owner password, then there aren't any restrictions on the
PDF in terms of whether printing is allowed, text extraction, etc. So
your code is doing exactly as you intend it to.
--Adam
Faisal Farooq <ffar...@gmail.com>
11/04/2009 09:03
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Re: PDF Permissions
I did check that the securityhandler is null. This is because I am not
trying to decrypt the document at all and thus it is null which makes
sense
and indeed it is returning owner permissions.
But lets step back a second and look at my problem. I have a pdf i did not
create and i do not have 'any' password (user or owner). the way the pdf
was
created that everybody can print it but do nothing else. All i want to
know
is what are the permissions on this pdf in a programmatic way. one can
open
this document and look at the properties to find the same thing out, so
there must be a programmatic way to do that too.
So, how could this be done?
Faisal
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Faisal Farooq <ffar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hesham and Adam and All,
>
> My problem seems to be simpler in spirit. All i want to know are the
> security settings on a pdf. i do not have the password. i have a pdf
file
> and i want to know what are the operations that are allowed on the pdf.
It
> would be like opening the pdf in adobe and then going to
> File->Properties->Security and finding what is allowed and what is not.
The
> code below does not seem to work. It always return the variable 'ex' as
> true, even if the PDF has Extraction Not Allowed set. Any ideas?
>
>
>
> ex = ap.canExtractContent() and thus always prints "You have permission
to
>> extract text".
>>
>> Can anybody tell me what am I doing wrong? The file mypdf.pdf has all
>> settings except printing as 'Not Allowed'.
>>
>> **********
>>
>> boolean force = false;
>> String pdfFile = "mypdf.pdf";
>>
>> try {
>> document = PDDocument.load(pdfFile, force);
>> } catch (IOException e) {
>> System.out.println(e.getMessage());
>> }
>>
>> AccessPermission ap = document.getCurrentAccessPermission();
>>
>> boolean ex = ap.canExtractContent();
>>
>> if( !ex ){
>> System.out.println( "You do not have permission to extract
>> text" );
>> }
>> else{
>> System.out.println( "You have permission to extract text"
);
>> }
>>
>> *************
>>
>> Faisal
>
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