Ok, I didn't understood it could be used with ruby, will check how to do that, thanks again for your help ;)
On 20 feb, 18:35, Jeff Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Bill. pdftk has been an invaluable tool for me when > working with pdfs, and can easily be wrapped for use in ruby. > > Altho you'll want to add checks to ensure safety of params your > passing to pdftk, and check for errors returned, ..., you could do > something like: > > ... > def add_user_pw_to_pdf(infile, pw, outfile) > `pdftk #{infile} output #{outfile} user_pw #{pw} 2>&1` > end > > def combine_pdfs(infiles, outfile) > `pdftk #{infiles.join(' ')} output #{outfile} 2>&1` > end > ... > > which you could then call like: > > ... > add_user_pw_to_pdf('test.pdf', 'supersecret', 'test_with_pss.pdf') > ... > combine_pdfs(['a.pdf', 'b.pdf', 'c.pdf'], 'abc.pdf') > ... > > Jeff > > On Feb 20, 3:14 pm, CiriusMex <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Ok, this toolkit seems pretty cool but my problem is that I want todo > > everything using Ruby, so I need a plugin or something that can > > connect to ruby in order to do the PDF copy etc using a ruby > > function... > > > On 20 feb, 16:27, CiriusMex <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks a lot, I'm gonna check it right now ^^ > > > > Olivier. > > > > On 20 feb, 15:12, bill walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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- Ocultar texto de la cita - > > > > > - Mostrar texto de la cita -- Ocultar texto de la cita - > > > > - Mostrar texto de la cita -- Ocultar texto de la cita - > > - Mostrar texto de la cita - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
