Hi Oliver, On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 11:09 -0800, CiriusMex wrote: > Hi, I have a little issue here. I'm working on an eBook site and need > to generate PDFs. I managed it using PDF::Writer and did the trick > quite well but now I want to generate PDFs with a password access. > After checking on internet, I saw that PDF::Writer encrypt method was > removed (for encryption algorithm was cracked or something like that). > Had a look at the Prawn plugin but it has no security module and can't > be used to do so. > > Is there any way to create password protected PDFs with Ruby? > > Other problem, I want to modifiy the PDF generation to create new PDFs > by copying PDF files already existing and adding a front page with the > customer name and a little message. I managed read PDF files and copy > the content in a new PDF but I'm losing all the format (the result is > just a new PDF with the text of the original PDF but with no > format...). Anyone know how I can copy a PDF and add this front page?
I worked through a very similar set of issues a couple of years ago. Ended up using a system call to pdftk (http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/). It'll do what you need very easily. HTH, Bill --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
